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Article from Dairy NZ Pamu Study reveals intersting but undestandable results
Created 08 July 2024
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The stats say it all.
Rotary leading the way, Herring bone sheds an even bigger opportunity!
Leading TechniPham designed and NZ manufactured Dungbuster Automatic Yard cleaning leading the way.
Environmental Footprint, Labour savings and Pump/Power savings and reduced effluent volumes great drivers here!
Teatspray automated in line systems the biggest opportunity for farmers in Herring bone sheds to improve and safe time, and TechniPharm systems are best suited to this . TechniPharm has buy and lease options too!
Labour savings , + udder health, + quality milk, reduced antibiotics use great drivers here!
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Preso Sheds are agreat NZ made solution to many shelter and cover problems
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Heat is here to stay, how do we deal with this and provide shelter and comfort?
Dungbuster on Rectanguial yards can be used to cool cows
Cowhouses can be used to create cool resting during the day, increasing feed intake and production
Created 03 February 2023
Land use changes in the wind, enviromental changes are needed, can we solve succession, protein production and carbon all in one?
Created 14 March 2022
Copy extracted from general media. An interetsing read
Created 14 March 2022
With more farmers involved in the Goat and Sheep milking industry TechniPharm is enhancing its profile in this sector with some of its make farming ezy solutions
Created 15 December 2021
See also opinion article by Harmen Heesen
Created 03 December 2021
Opinion peace of hidden running cost and capital investment realities and pathogen risk
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some future thougts of what could happen
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Soil managemnt is always an intersting subject of discussion, much is still unknown, but as the world is looking for solutions of weanig itself off oil and chemicals interesting solutions emerge
Created 03 August 2020
Auto feeders have been around for a long time, as one of NZ few remaing manufacturers of feeders TechniPharm has a 30 year history in providing feeders, from the early Irish Le Grains to the ROBOT feeder ( made in NZ)
This Report prepared by the Dairy Exporter June 2020
Created 28 June 2020
Report from ANZ on details of existing and future opportunity and importance of water and irrigation in NZ
Created 28 June 2020
Our team was fortunate to attend this year Bull sale at Twin Oak where some years ago we installed a High Performance Yard and Highflow 260 Cattle Handler and auto drafter .
We congratulate Roger and Susan with yet an outstanding sale .
Top price 40k with a couple of other lots going for around 25k, then between 8 and 11k with the lower prices around 4-5k. Total Bulls for sale 48.
R&S happy with the sale considering the current environment and grateful they were able to have the sale with the lifting of group restriction from 10 to 100.
Yards looked in very good order and is a credit to what was designed for the purpose and installed at the time.
Created 08 June 2020
Mc Kensey and company report on Global water
Created 08 May 2020
By Vet South
For many of us when treating lame cows, the standard treatment is to do a corrective trim of the problem area and if it is a moderate or severe lameness then apply a hoof block to the other claw. This has been the standard treatment for many years, however only a small percentage of farmers and vets consider using a pain relief/anti-inflammatory on top of this eg. Metacam, Key, or Rimadyl. When we actually stop to think about this, it is quite interesting why pain relief is not commonly used. Lameness is described as being one of the most painful conditions for a dairy cow. This is easily seen with a lame cow limping down the track, instantaneously dropping their milk production, rapidly losing condition and having very poor fertility. The aim should be to return these cows back to normality as soon as possible so they can become productive again, and to minimise the welfare concerns of that cow.
A recent study shows the effectiveness of different treatments for lame cows. This study showed a drastic improvement of cure rates when adding a pain relief on top of the standard treatments. Newly lame cows were given 1 of 4 different treatment regimes, they were then assessed to identify their cure* rates 35 days post the initial treatment.
The following cure rates were observed:
- Corrective trim only 25%
- Corrective trim + hoof block 36%
- Corrective trim + 3 days of pain relief 29%
- Corrective trim + hoof block + 3 days of pain relief 56%
This study shows that by a large margin the most successful treatment is adding in a hoof block and 3 days of pain relief on top of corrective trimming. When comparing this treatment regime to corrective trimming alone, it more than doubles the cure rate**. When the treatment period shortens the cow will improve their productivity, condition and fertility faster, hence in the long run will be more profitable. This is particularly important with lame cows early on in the season or during mating.
Next time when treating lame cows consider using some pain relief to get better and faster cure rates, this is definitely going to become the normal treatment regime over time. Have a yarn to your KeyVet about which type of pain relief is best for your farm systems.
*cure = a DairyNZ locomotion score of 0 after 35 days since treated
** The difference in cure rates between treatment regime 1 and 4 was statistically significant
Evaluation of treatments for claw horn lesions in dairy cows in a randomized controlled trial (H. J Thomas et al). Journal of Dairy Science 2015
Created 08 April 2020
Helpful article in respect of best use of N
Created 29 January 2020
Article by Jane Lacey Hulbert
Created 26 November 2019
article extraction from Inside Dairy
Created 25 November 2019
Linear of Circular what was went what is now is outdated, back to what everyone use to do !
Created 23 October 2019
Article on how Kelli solved their effluent problems
Created 23 October 2019
extract from Dairy News sept 3
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Dairy NZ article on volumes and distribution
Created 18 July 2019
Great article on how relatively small investments in technology for data collection of animal performance can make a positive contribution to the bottom line
Created 28 April 2019
Many parts of animal wellbeing are poorly understood, particularly when it comes to comfort and wintering in NZ
Created 18 April 2019
Science based article on Glyphosphate
Created 18 April 2019
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