Vaccination has risen to 73% of dairy herds yet most still record positive cases of the airborne herpesvirus; the advice is closed herds where possible, four-week isolation of bought-in stock, foot and vehicle baths and bulk-tank antibody testing.
Built with ICAR's Indian Institute of Maize Research and two years of data from Shunya Agritech's own growing centres, the app reads fodder quality from a photo at every stage from grain to mat, answers growers' questions with an AI trained on the company's protocols and recommends pest and fungus t
ICMSA president Denis Drennan put four priorities to the EU commissioner, an adequate budget, real measures against price volatility, simplification at farm level and an active-farmer definition based on one livestock unit per hectare.
Older, over-conditioned cows are most at risk of the calcium crash that follows calving; the advice is a dry-cow mineral with 22% magnesium and high vitamin D, trace minerals from six weeks out, silage under 2.2% potassium and a calcium bolus rather than a bottle.
DairyNZ's EconTracker scenarios put farm working expenses at $6.57-6.78/kg milksolids against a $6.18 baseline, feed costs up to $2.02/kg, pasture deficits of 2-4.2 t DM/ha in Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and the East Coast, and milk production down 2.1-3.3%; the sector is financially strong, b
Olam Food Ingredients, which owns almond orchards in Victoria and a milk plant at Tokoroa, has had pilot supplier farms feeding hulls and shells for two seasons alongside the Agolin Ruminant additive; early results on methane are 'very positive', says COO dairy Naval Sabri, though he calls it one to
Marks & Spencer says it is the first retailer to monitor dairy cow welfare with AI video analytics across its whole supply pool: cameras track lying, feeding, social behaviour, mobility and body condition to build a health profile and comfort score for every cow, tested to the standard of a trained
Some 2,300 farmers answered the Agriland-ICMSA survey by research agency Opinions: 94% say the public does not understand the challenges they face, 88% feel blamed for environmental problems, and dairy farmers are the most pessimistic.
The January-August figures are on MyAgFood; dairy farmers who have not confirmed their cow band have been defaulted to the top band of 106kg N per cow, and real-time nitrates data covering sheep as well as cattle is being developed.
Melissa Moody, who had never sat on a tractor before COVID-19 cost her a job, bought Carl Hoellerer's organic dairy at Cincinnatus, New York, in February with a Farm Service Agency loan and the sale of her house, milking 45 cows on 127 acres with a mentor a phone call away.
In Töv province, Otgo Dashdorj is one of more than 1,700 farmers supplying APU Dairy with help from an FAO-EBRD programme that brings digital advice, climate-smart feeding and investment plans to a sector battered by the dzud.
AgrotechAn analysis published on 9 June 2026 by USDA's Economic Research Service found that American dairies using robotic milking earned net returns $3.15 per hundredweight of milk higher, on average, than dairies that had not adopted it.
AgrotechCows milked by robots produced 6 percent of U.S. milk in 2021, up from 4 percent in 2016, USDA's Economic Research Service reported. Thirteen percent of dairies with 150 to 499 cows used the technology, more than either smaller or larger farms.
