by Kirsty Jaensch | Oct 29, 2024 | Media 2024, P2e
Calf husbandry Improving calf care reduces antimicrobial use, lowers mortality rate, improves dairy business profitability and helps maintain social licence. There are two elements to Dairy Up’s P2e Calf Husbandry project: automated calf rearing and rearing Holstein...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Oct 29, 2024 | Media 2024, P2e
Congratulations Sarah Congratulations to Dr Sarah Legge on her recent PhD graduation. The research Sarah did for her thesis “The lasting impact of calf performance” made a major contribution to Dairy UP’s P2e Calf Husbandry project. Sarah used data from automatic...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Aug 27, 2024 | Media 2024, P3 Project
Resources for resilience – loose housing and freestalls Dairy Australia’s website features some great farmer case studies that came out Dairy UP’s P3: Economics of intensification project and related work funded by DA. Here’s the links to some of the case...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Aug 27, 2024 | Media 2024, P9c
Adding value to dairy waste Dairy UP’s Project P9c is investigating options to add value to dairy waste. In Australia, about 8% of total on-farm milk production is discarded as waste. The benefits of reducing this wastage are financial, environment and improved...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Aug 27, 2024 | Media 2024
DRF Symposium Due to clashes with other events in November and with the aim of joining forces with other industry organisations, the Dairy Research Foundation is postponing its annual symposium for a bigger and better event in 2025. More details on dates and plans...
