If it’s not one thing, it’s another; and calving down cows usually presents them all; and in combination. Why? Because they are all interrelated. Continue reading →

On-farm tests to identify metabolic disorders in dry, springer and fresh cows Continue reading →

Is it our goal to just get cows through calving without clinical milk fever or ketosis? Or, do we see it as an opportunity to achieve high milk production, good health and optimal fertility. Needless to say there is a vastly different financial outcome between these two alternatives. We see both every year. Continue reading →

Many a lactation is won or lost in the dry cow phase. There has been a significant failure in Australian dry cow nutrition with a tell-tale legacy in national average milk production and fertility. Continue reading →

High fertility starts at dry-off. The dry cow has long been the most neglected animal on the farm, but is now rising to the most important as research traces production/fertility failures to the dry period; or at least some very significant causes are perpetuated through poor dry cow nutrition. Continue reading →