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2025 DRF Symposium
The Dairy Research Foundation Symposium will be held on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th November 2025.
Welcome to Dairy UP
Dr Tori Alexander, Dr Laura Ruiz Espinosa and Dr Sarah Legge join the Dairy UP team.
Remote pasture sensing workshop
In February, more than 20 service providers, consultants and researchers attended Dairy UP’s remote pasture sensing workshop.
Milk with less lactose
Dairy UP’s P9a project is looking for ways to produce cows’ milk with high concentrations of solids and less water.
Markers for cow longevity
Results from Dairy UP PhD student, David Sheedy’s, work have been published in the Journal of Dairy Science. He is investigating biomarkers associated with increased aging and number of calvings (parity).
Amazing maize
Dairy UP’s P4 project (Feedbase – Maize for Silage) is progressing well. The team is currently working with Pioneer Seeds to evaluate the yield and nutritional characteristics of conventional and ‘brown mid-rib’ (BMR) hybrids grown under full irrigation at the University of Sydney “Lansdowne” farm in Camden.
Alice Shirley joins USYD after completing her PhD with Dairy UP
Dairy UP PhD student Alice Shirley, has been appointed to an ongoing education-focused role with the University of Sydney from May 2025, when she is due to complete her PhD candidature.
2025 Dairy Symposium – revised dates!
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.
In conference
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.
Resources for resilience
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.
Resilient cattle
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 monitoring insights
Satellite technologies are improving all the time, creating new and exciting opportunities for remote pasture monitoring.
2025 Dairy Symposium
The Dairy Symposium will be held in November 2025
The hidden cost of pasture utilisation
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.
Calf Pathways
As per the plan, P10 (Calf Pathways) was completed last year. The final reports for the two P10 projects are now available on the Dairy UP website.
Podcast: Profit and risks of intensive dairying husbandry
Listen to insights from Sheena Carter and Claire Waterman on the profitability and risks of intensive dairying.
Calf husbandry
Improving calf care reduces antimicrobial use, lowers mortality rate, improves dairy business profitability and helps maintain social licence.
Congratulations Sarah
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.
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.
Adding 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 security.