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Calf pathways roadmap
In follow up work to Dairy UP’s P10 project (Sustainable pathways for surplus calves), Dairy Australia has launched CalfWays, a roadmap to sustainable dairy farm management to 2035.
Centenary Awards
Congratulations to Dairy UP Project Leader, Dr Ian Lean who recently received the prestigious Centenary Award for his outstanding contribution to Professional Practice.
Calf disease revisited: New clues from modern testing
Dairy UP’s P2f – Infectious Diseases project team have been busy analysing results, preparing fact sheets and presenting their findings at the DRF Symposium.
Remote pasture monitoring
The Dairy UP team has recorded a video highlighting the key findings from Project P1a: Remote Pasture Monitoring. Listen to Dr Martin Correa-Luna and Peter Beale discuss some of the key results and implications for farmers.
Dairy Science Award
The 2025 Dairy Science Award went to south coast NSW dairy food technologist, Geoff Boxsell who invented spreadable butter more than 50 years ago.
Dairy UP shines at the DRF Symposium Scientist Competition
Congratulations to the Dairy UP young researchers who received awards at the DRF Symposium Emerging Scientist Competition.
Symposium wrap up
The 2025 Dairy Research Symposium was a great success with more than 180 people attending. Dairy UP projects featured heavily on the program and participants were able to take home a 140-page Project Outputs Journal.
Congratulations Ian, David and Helen
A journal article authored by several members of the Dairy UP team was recently placed on the Journal of Dairy Science’s list of 100 most cited papers since 2022. Congratulations to Ian Lean, David Sheedy, Helen Golder and their co-authors for the success of their paper.
Carbon emissions and dairy systems
PhD student, Mulisa Dida, has been working with the Dairy UP team on P1d Carbon on NSW dairy farms. He recently had a paper published in the Journal of Dairy Science: Greenhouse gas emissions of confinement and pasture-based dairy farms: Implications for mitigation.
Kikuyu podcast
Dairy UP’s Professor Richard Trethowan recently starred in Dairy Australia’s DairyPod podcast. He was interviewed by Dairy Australia’s Principal Scientist John Penry discussing one of Dairy UP’s groundbreaking projects: research into Kikuyu ryegrass and how it could benefit Australian dairy systems.
New viruses discovered on NSW dairy farms
Thanks to the 72 farmers who gave Dairy UP’s P2f Infectious Diseases team access to collect more than 2000 samples from calves and cows. Analysis of these samples has revealed a number viruses previously not recorded on NSW dairy farms. We’ve prepared a series of fact sheets about them.
Case definition and metabolic disorders: More accurate phenotypes
More accurate definitions (phenotypes) of metabolic disorders are needed to improve research, prevention, and treatment. Imprecise definitions can lead to classification errors that weaken associations or result in unreliable breeding values.
Machine learning increases the accuracy of pasture cover estimation using satellite data
On Australian grazing-based dairy farms, effective feed budgeting and pasture management requires accurate estimation of pasture cover.
P7 Dairy Businesses for Future Climates
Dairy UP’s P7 project took a case study approach to investigate options for dairy businesses for adapting their production systems and businesses to the impacts of climate change.
Congratulations David
Congratulations to David Sheedy who has completed and formally submitted his PhD thesis on “Metabolic Investigation into Dairy Cow Longevity”, as part of Dairy UP P2a project!
Congratulations Rezaul
Congratulations to PhD student Md Rezaul Hai Rakib for coming second runner up in the 3-minute thesis competition held by the Science Faculty at the University of Sydney
Symposium 26-27 November
Delegates at this year’s Dairy Research Foundation Symposium will hear from Tasmanian farmer, Troy Ainslie, about his life changing experience with virtual fencing.
Artificial intelligence for a dairy cattle heat tolerance phenotype
This study aims to enhance the selection of heat-tolerant dairy cattle by integrating artificial intelligence into the current model used to calculate the Australian Breeding Value for Heat Tolerance.
Factors influencing lactose production in dairy cows.
The study analysed almost 400,000 herd test records from more than 30,000 cows across 85 farms in New South Wales to assess the relationship between lactose output and milk yield, composition and quality, genetics, and environmental factors.
Potential of HSP70 as a non-invasive biomarker for detecting heat stress in dairy cow.
This study compared the effectiveness of heat stress detection methods, with a particular focus on HSP70, a protein in milk that has been identified as a potential non-invasive biomarker.