ABS & Dairy News

Breeding for polled position

When it comes to breeding, Megan Coster doesn’t want to sacrifice anything. For the past decade, the West Gippsland dairy farmer has been on a quest to develop a polled herd. Dedicated to ridding her family’s business of the practice of disbudding, she was also conscious that choosing polled sires in the early days could…

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Easy breeding at Toora

When it comes to breeding dairy cattle, Dan Knee likes to keep it simple. In fact, the Gippsland dairy farmer would prefer to have as little to do with the genetic selection within his herd as possible. After all, he’s the first to admit he doesn’t know a lot about breeding and is “happy to keep it…

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Beefing-up calf stocks at Yanakie

Demand for dairy-beef has been that hot, one Gippsland farming family joked they’d sold next year’s calves- and the cows weren’t even joined. This comes as they have also installed automatic calf feeders ahead of calving this autumn, in preparation for rearing the most heifer calves they’ve had at their dairy farm. This year, Paul Hannigan and Kylie Irvin will…

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