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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.
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.
PhD students make progress on P2f Infectious diseases project
Two PhD students at UTS are working on Dairy UP’s P2f Infectious diseases project, under the supervision of Dr Barbara Brito Rodriguez at EMAI and others at UTS.
Recent Publications
Members of the P2 team have had an editorial published in the Australian Veterinary Journal Volume 102, Issue 1-2.
Resources for resilience – farm expansion goals and cattle shelters
Some great farmer case studies were produced for the Raising the Roof field days including the one held in the Hunter Valley in February.
P1e Kikuyu Nutritional Value
Dairy UP’s P1e project has calibrated a model that simulates changes in Kikuyu’s nutritional value during regrowth.
P6a Resilient Cattle (heat tolerance)
Dairy UP’s PhD student, Alice Shirley recently had a review published in the Animal Journal.
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).
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. Ian Lean presented findings from David Sheedy’s PhD studies which are part of P2a Cattle Longevity.
P2 Infectious diseases
It’s been a busy few months for Dairy UP’s P2f team who have now completed sample collection from farms.
More than 2000 samples have been collected from 72 farms
Congratulations Rose
Dr Rose Phillipzen received an Honorary Fellowship of the University of Sydney.
Rose is a member of Dairy UP’s Steering and Advisory Board and Head of Livestock and Genetics as Australian Fresh Milk Holdings, Leppington Pastoral Company.
Early alerts for calf husbandry
Recent findings by Sarah Legge and her Dairy UP colleagues provide the basis to develop early alert systems for calves being reared with automatic calf feeders.
Supplements boost profit, reduce GHG
Dairy UP PhD student Mulisa Jaji Dida has recently had an article published in the Journal of Dairy Science, entitled Dietary Concentrate Supplementation Increases Milk Production and Reduces Predicted Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity in Pasture-based Commercial Dairy Farms.
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.
Resources for resilient farming
People issues are one of the top three challenges reported by Australian dairy farmers. These issues include training, managing and retaining staff, ensuring practices are complaint with regulations such as OH&S and people are paid according to the appropriate awards.
Tim Bale case study
Read about NSW dairy farmer Tim Bale’s experience with Remote Pasture Monitoring project.
He is a partner farm with Dairy UP’s P1a project.
Farm system evaluator
The NSW Raising the Roof event demonstrated huge interest in intensive feeding systems.
Dairy Australia now offers an online tool (and a 2-day workshop) to help farmers evaluate a farm system change.
P8 Farmer Capability
Dairy UP’s P8 project developed/updated a suite of training resources for farmers focussing on human resources (HR), safety and developing people capability.
Resources for resilient farming
The Nicholson family from Jones Island in the Manning Valley have been a partner farm for Dairy UP’s P1a Remote Monitoring project since late 2021.