
Breeding for the golden oldies
Highly profitable, fertile, healthy and long-lived cows have been the dairy herd ideal for generations. LIC international technical manager Joyce Voogt offers some insight into the secret behind long life cows.
Highly profitable, fertile, healthy and long-lived cows have been the dairy herd ideal for generations. LIC international technical manager Joyce Voogt offers some insight into the secret behind long life cows.
An often-forgotten region of Australian dairy, South Australia’s Mount Schank is efficiently going about its business. LIC Australia Sales and Operations Manager Mike Rose spent some time there visiting farmers and made a special visit to Mike Green’s farm in the heart of the region.
With a new crop of 80 Holstein Friesian sires that have been through LIC’s intensive progeny test process, we can pick the cream of the crop using actual data from their milking daughters.
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