By TVG Admin|2018-01-13T18:16:12+11:00October 13th, 2016|Categories: Farm Services|Tags: Alex Crosbie, cattle, dairy, monitoring, technology|
by Alex Crosbie Technology and innovation are a critical means by which businesses can become more efficient, productive and profitable. In the dairy industry the evolution and availability of mobile cow monitoring tools such as e-collars and ear tags enable farmers to accurately and easily monitor activity and rumination. These emerging technologies pose many questions
By TVG Admin|2018-01-13T18:15:44+11:00October 1st, 2016|Categories: Farm Services|Tags: drench, faecal egg counts, FEC, Monica Ryan, worm, worm control|
by Monica Ryan For a long time drench resistance was only considered a problem for sheep producers. Recent work on dairy farms in Gippsland and South-West Victoria has shown that resistance in cattle worm species (particularly stomach worm Ostertagia) is common to all classes of anthelmintic products. The study in Maffra dairy farms showed 100%
