by Kirsty Jaensch | Jul 12, 2024 | Media 2024, P1e
P1e Kikuyu Nutritional Value Dairy UP’s P1e project has calibrated a model that simulates changes in Kikuyu’s nutritional value during regrowth. The model accounts for leaf growth, age and size and nutritive value (metabolizable energy and fibre content). Future work...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Jul 12, 2024 | Media 2024, P6 Project
P6a Resilient Cattle (heat tolerance) Dairy UP’s PhD student, Alice Shirley recently had a review published in the Animal Journal. She examined the historical and contemporary use of the terms ‘resistance’, ‘tolerance’; ‘resilience’, and ‘susceptibility’, and proposed...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Jul 12, 2024 | Media 2024, P1a
P1a results published in Scientific Reports Dairy UP’s P1a Remote Pasture Management team have had their results on machine learning satellite training published in the prestigious Scientific Reports (a Journal of the Nature Portfolio). Their paper: “Accounting...
by Kirsty Jaensch | Jul 12, 2024 | Media 2024, P9b
American Dairy Science Association conference Dairy UP work was recently showcased at the conference of the prestigious American Dairy Society Association. PhD student Md Rezaul Rakib presented early findings from P9b: Milk as an Indicator of Heat Load and Adj Prof....
by Kirsty Jaensch | Jun 10, 2024 | P2g, Media 2024
Ideal age of first calving Dairy UP PhD student, Andrew Lean is investigating the effect of age a heifer calves for the first time on lifetime milk production, health and fertility. Through his literature review he has confirmed many benefits from calving earlier (at...
