The Dairy Mail - Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2008

Effective scours control

When Hayden and his father, Gavin Stokes, started to revamp their dairy business on the farm Burnview in the Creighton valley in KwaZulu-Natal in 2000, he had a vision that would see the farm change profoundly over the next five years.

Ethological parameters such as epimeletic, ingestion and comfort-seeking behaviour, can be used to evaluate the welfare and wellbeing of dairy cows.

When dairy producers decide to make a change to their dairy facility, they sometimes view the proposed change as an isolated project in relation to the rest of the dairy operation. A more practical approach would be to consider each facility change as an integrated component of your future dairy operation and not just as a band-aid or add-on for the existing one.

I would like to highlight some interesting, practical facts regarding redwater in the upcoming issues. Hopefully, after reading the articles, you will have a better understanding of the disease and how to practically control it .

Deur 'n basiese kennis van immunologiese beginsels en die voorkoming van situasies en toestande wat die immuunsisteem van u diere nadelig mag beïnvloed, kan u kudde beter beskerm word teen infeksiesiektes en kan finansiële verliese tot 'n minimum beperk word.

Genetic breeding has taken care of the production capacity of modern dairy breeds, with many of them capable of producing well over 60 litres a day. We need to also change the way in which we feed the cow in order to keep her healthy and allow her to reach her genetic potential for milk production.

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For this reason, research has been turned to the task of making the nutrients in the feed more available. This is done by manipulating the microflora that reside within the GIT of all living things and this is the point at which all the "biotics" come into play.

New dairy nutrition website

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Milk's health benefits

Skuins onder die hoofopskrifte oor Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton en die res van die deelnemers aan die dolle wedloop vir die Wit Huis, trek 'n perd van 'n ander kleur ook deesdae die Amerikaners se aandag: gekloonde plaasdiere.

The past decade has seen many dairy farmers give up and close shop after coming to terms with the harsh reality of an unfavourable economic climate which dictates that only the strongest would survive. The same balloon went up for producer distributors (PDs) and those with enough business savvy and cunning not only survived the economic storms, but are now riding the wave of success.

All indications are that there is enormous growth potential for the dairy industry in both South Africa and the rest of Africa. In the face of this opportunity, it is important for both the primary and secondary sectors to be mindful of the fact that it is not sufficient to simply regard milk as "milk is milk is milk" and to think that approach will bring success in its wake, according to Theo Hendrickse, chief executive officer of Parmalat.

Melt Loubser, 'n bekende in die suiwelbedryf en besturende direkteur van Fair Cape Dairies, het einde 2007 die leisels oorgeneem as voorsitter van die Suid-Afrikaanse Melkprosesseerders organisasie (Sampro).

"Self-sufficiency in food, water and energy, is the key to the future and world peace".

Wengrappie

Grootfontein Landboukollege in die Oos-Kaap vorm deel van die groter Grootfontein Landbou-ontwikkelingsinstituut. Dit is die Middelburgse skool se strewe om gehalte praktykgerigte landbou-opleiding aan studente te bied op tersiêre asook verdere onderrig en opleidingsvlakke.

JK Basson van Darling is aangewys as Suid Afrika se nasionale meestersuiwelboer vir 2007. Hy het die toekenning tydens 'n funksie in Irene, Pretoria, verower met sterk kompetisie van die vier ander provinsiale finaliste.

Die All Africa Dairy Expo (AADE) wat op 12 en 13 Februarie in Parys aangebied is, het talle boere en belangstellendes van regoor die land gelok. Die meer as 50 uitstallers het hulle ware ten toon gestel en veral die kursusse soos verloskunde, kaasmaak, blommerangskikking en vleisverwerking, het groot gehore gelok.

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Vanjaar se uitstallers is ook beloon met 'n toekenning aan die beste en naasbeste uitstalruimte. Alltech is as die beste uitstaller aangewys en Marefa Internasionaal as die naaswenner in dié kompetisie wat deur Clovergeborg is.

The following strategies have been developed by Alltech® to help producers control or prevent sub-clinical diseases and maximise performance and economic results.

Twee van die dodelikste beessiektes bekend aan ons, naamlik miltsiekte en lamsiekte, word nou vir die eerste keer gekombineer in een entstof om dit vir boere makliker te maak om hulle diere teen hierdie siektes te beskerm. Hoekom is dit so belangrik om teen hierdie twee siektes in te ent?

Retha Scheepers was appointed as new MR at Taurus in Irene.