Lynn Pridham and her husband Ian introduced a smart ear tag system for monitoring the youngstock Making use of technology has enabled two new entrants to save time by monitoring their dairy herd with limited staffing requirements. British Dairying discovers more. Over the past three years, Ian and Lynn Pridham have built a new dairy […]
Category Archives: Breeding: Genetics, Fertility, AI
The first female calf born by artificial insemination with sexed semen in 1999 First published in 2004, the Sexed Semen Report examined the level of uptake and financial implications, along with the improvements that had taken place in the use of the technology during its early years. British Dairying revisits the report 20 years on. […]
Nearly all cows can be milked by robot, but there is still room to tweak genetics to getbetter performance from them in a robotic system. British Dairying reports. Typically, less than 1% of cows cannot be milked through robots when moving from a conventional milking system. However, improv- ing certain traits to fine-tune milk- ing […]