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Rare opportunity for aspiring dairy researchers
Dairy UP – the $16m project to unlock the potential of the NSW dairy industry – is calling for candidates for nine PhD projects, creating a rare opportunity for aspiring dairy researchers.
Dairy Research Foundation 2021 Symposium
Online 17 & 18 November 2021
The 2021 Dairy Symposium will be live online for the second year in a row. We can’t meet face to face this year, but we can take advantage of the technology and just ‘zoom it’.
Niall Blair appointed chair of Dairy UP
New collaborative dairy research and development program Dairy UP appoints former agriculture Minister Niall Blair as new Chairperson of its Steering and Advisory Board.
Dairy UP hits the ground running
Dairy Up – the new $16 million research, development and extension program is up and running.
The 5-year program which started in July 2021, is structured around 10 projects which collectively address improving on-farm productivity and profitability, de-risking the industry and developing new markets.
Researchers call for NSW dairy farmers
Dairy UP researchers are looking for NSW dairy businesses with good records to join its network of monitored dairy farms.
Program Leader, Professor Yani Garcia, said information collected on the monitored farms would contribute to Dairy UP’s two biggest projects which aim to unlock the potential of kikuyu pastures and unlock the potential of the dairy cow in intense feeding systems.
University of Sydney leads $16m NSW dairy recovery program
A new collaborative bushfire resilience project including government, the private sector and the University of Sydney, will apply research to future-proof the dairy industry, it was announced by Agriculture Ministers David Littleproud and Adam Marshall today.