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| AGBU's work has greatly assisted the improvement of livestock through breeding in Australia and overseas. A vibrant scientific program continues with regular publication of research results in Scientific Journals. However, its main purpose is to meet ongoing demands from Australia's livestock industries for research, development and training in genetics. |
| Extended dry periods place extra stresses on both dairy cows and managers. If a dry season, or the severity of a dry season has not been anticipated, then animals can quickly lose condition. |
| The fall in farm gate milk prices has increased the pressure on dairy farmers. This has happened on top of a prolonged period where rain has slowed pasture growth and paddocks have become muddy. Despite these challenges, it is important that dairy cattle continue to be fed properly and that everyone in the dairy industry acts properly to maintain good cattle welfare. |
| Australian Dairy Farmers is the national voice of Australia's dairy farmers providing strong leadership and representation for the continued growth of internationally competitive, innovative and sustainable dairy farm businesses.
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| The Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme (ADHIS) is an initiative of the Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) maintaining a national database of performance and pedigree details for individual dairy animals. |
| A free benchmarking service is provided courtesy of sponsors, DairyTas and TIAR for Tasmanian dairy farmers. This can either be a personal dairy business analysis or entered in the Impact Dairy Business of the Year Award. |
| Information on Bovine Pestivirus including diagnostics, risks and management information. |
| The calving histogram has been developed to help you measure the performance of your herd management for calving. |
| The calculator is designed to provide you with a simple-to-use aid to calculating the cost of transporting stock on a ‘per kilogram’ basis, a ‘per head’ basis and a ‘total cost’ basis. |
| Provides a number of links to cattle yard design and equipment. |
| Countdown offers a clear path forward in the complex control of Mastitis. |
| CowTime can help farmers improve their milk harvesting process by showing how to spend less time in the dairy, save money on labour or decide on the dairy improvements that are right for your circumstances. |
| Dairy Australia delivers the services needed by the Australian dairy industry for its ongoing and future development as a competitive, innovative and sustainable dairy industry that contributes to the overall prosperity of Australian and regional economies.
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| Discussion groups, courses and workshops run by the Dairy Centre of the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research (TIAR). |
| The Dairy Effluent Management Project assists Tasmanian dairy farmers to manage dairy effluent in a sustainable way. |
| Website providing information on dairy farm management, soils, pastures, business management, discussion groups and extension/training activities. |
| The information and tools in this website will help you make both short and long-term decisions about hazards in and around your dairy. |
| This is a profile of the Tasmanian Dairy Industry as at January 2009. |
| Nutritive characteristics of supplementary feeds. |
| A national strategy for the dairy industry to work with community partners, to sustain its natural resources. |
| DairyTas is the Tasmanian service delivery arm of Dairy Australia. Investing farmer levies and other funds to support the Tasmanian Dairy Industry. DairyTas' main aim is to identify, prioritise, promote, facilitate and leverage opportunities for research, development and extension activities in the Tasmanian dairy industry which will assist dairy farmers to manage change. |
| Dairyweb is a web-based communications solution that enables dairy organisations to improve their communications with dairy farmers. Dairyweb provides a range of services and tools that enable organisations to streamline their communications with their milk suppliers and for dairy farmers to conveniently access important business information. |
| Diet Check is a simple decision support tool designed to assist dairy farmers in ensuring grazing dairy cows are consuming sufficient metabolisable energy, crude protein and neutral detergent fibre for a target level of milk production. |
| Information on Livestock Behaviour, Design of Facilities and Humane Slaughter
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| FutureDairy is a research and extension program to help Australia’s dairy farmers manage the challenges they are likely to face during the next 20 years. |
| Calculates estimated dates of delivery and conception dates for a range of animals including sheep, cattle and pigs. |
| The Health cost benefit calculator has been developed to help you work out the benefit of applying an animal health treatment to your herd for bloat, clostridial diseases and grass tetany. |
| A national learning program working with Australian dairy farmers and their advisers to achieve measured improvement in herd reproductive performance. |
| Website containing information on the Tasmanian dairy industry including climate, careers, investment opportunties and pasture production. |
| This tool allows you to calculate how much pasture has been utilised on your milking area this financial year. |
| Quarantine Services has a wide range of responsibilities that include facilitation of exports and development of market access opportunities by providing preclearance barrier and post barrier control systems, technical data and quarantine integrity that is acknowledged in both the domestic and international marketplace. The Service also undertakes a quarantine barrier function to prevent the introduction of unwanted pests and diseases.
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| Selectabull is a free web tool produced by the Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme. It allows you to find the best bulls for your breeding program, Access dairy industry's independant ABV data, improve farm profit with planned genetic selection and build an effective breeding objective for future years. |
| This calculator has been designed to help work out the number of animals you should put into a paddock. |
| Provides assistance to shippers of eligible goods, transported by sea between Tasmania and the Australian mainland, with the aim of reducing the freight cost disadvantage imposed by Bass Strait. |
| The resources on this site are designed especially for dairy farmers to get the best outcomes from the people in their business. |