The collaborative dairy RD&E program for NSW

Four Dairy UP PhD students presented their work at the 20th Australasian Dairy Science Symposium in Christchurch in November, thanks to support from the University of Sydney Postgraduate Research scheme.

East coast low weather systems can be destructive by causing flooding, but they are also very beneficial by providing 20% of annual rainfall over a wide area of the NSW coast. LLS agronomist and Dairy UP team member

Dairy UP’s P6a Project is exploring the diversity in dairy cattle responses to heat events with the view to providing data to refine the model used to calculate DataGene’s Heat Tolerance Australian Breeding Value (ABV).

Satellite technologies are improving all the time, creating new and exciting opportunities for remote pasture monitoring.

The Dairy Symposium will be held in November 2025

Dairy UP’s work has recently been under the spotlight with an article ‘The hidden losses of pasture utilisation’ recently published in The Australian Farmer. The article features project P1a Remote pasture monitoring.