BVD A BAD MEMORY FOR FARMING COUPLE.
If there was ever a spring in her dairying career Trish Rankin would rather forget, it was back in 2013. While nine years ago, the award-winning dairy woman says the memories remain very sharp of a time when her and husband Glen had to deal with a Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) outbreak in their Wairarapa herd. More >
Dry off can be a trying time. It’s the end of a long season for cows and farmers, and everyone is ready for a break. Its important to keep focused though because drying off is the most critical time to set you and your cows up for a smooth season next year.More >
BVD - DISEASE RISK AND AVOIDANCE
While M. bovis and Covid-19 may be competing for farmers’ attention this winter, another equally infectious disease that has lurked in the background for years poses at least as big a threat to farm profitability and livestock health.More >
FARM BIOSECURITY CRITICAL PLANK IN BVD CONTROL
Biosecurity is high on most New Zealanders’ minds this year, thanks largely to Covid-19 and the need to keep it firmly on the country’s border edges to avoid it spreading throughout the community. More >
SUCCESSFUL REPRODUCTION TAKES A TEAM APPROACH
Keeping a dairy breeding programme in high gear requires a daily commitment to following protocols and investing the necessary time to make it work. More >
TRAPPING PROJECT PUTS DENT IN PEST POPULATION
A unique trapping campaign to help farmers reduce the number of rats, and the spread of leptospirosis is starting to report success in Wairarapa.More >
Masterton farmer Matt Wyeth’s particularly bad case of “man-flu” proved to be nearly fatal when he found himself in Southland hospital’s intensive care unit for 8 days after an emergency air lift off Stewart Island.More >
LEPTO AWARENESS - CAROLYN MCBRIDE
Carolyn McBride has religiously vaccinated her Taranaki dairy herd against lepto for the past 30 years, so no one was more surprised than her when she contracted a nasty strain of the disease whose impact still rebounds on her seven years later.More >
