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Webinar week: dairy farming
The line-up, main image: Zana van Dijk, the Host; inset, from top to bottom: Dr Ray Nebel of Select Sires, Enda Neville of Celtic Sea Minerals and Kristine Piccart of Cow Coach.
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n 17 November 2020 Dairy Global’s Advanced Dairy Farming webinar took place in coopera- tion with companies CowManager and Celtic Sea Minerals, also on board was expert and
dairy advisor from Cow Coach. The line-up of three speak- ers highlighted the way dairy farms can manage herds in a better and more sustainable way through nutrition and available technologies. The experts that presented were:
Dairy Global: Advanced Dairy Farming webinar 1. Enda Neville, M. An. Sc., Ruminant technical manager at Celtic Sea Minerals, presented “How plant-derived marine minerals promote feed efficiency and sustainability in dairy production”. His presentation looked at unique ma- rine mineral product Acid Buf, which is produced from the skeletal remains of red algae. He looked into how Acid Buf enhances healthy rumen function to keep it in optimal condition and how this drives dairy production and feed efficiency.
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2. Dr Ray Nebel, vice president of technical programs at Se- lect Sires, presented for CowManager on the topic “How to improve herd health with a cow monitoring system” and dived into how monitoring systems help farmers to focus on the right cows and insights into cow behaviour. There are many challenges that dairy farmers face in today’s sector, and in line with this Dr Nebel explored cow management for better cow health and herd productivity. He highlighted the ways that cow management can save costs, improve sustain- ability and lead to higher milk production.
3. Kristine Piccart, a Dairy Advisor at Cow Coach, spoke on “The supporting role of advisors in precision dairy farming: A plea for the multi-actor approach”. She also talked about how advisors can improve the effective use of precision dairy tech- nologies and create added value. In her presentation she brought up the subject of farm advisors and investing in digi- tal skills, adoption of dairy technologies, automatic systems and SCC, data overload or “techno stress” when it comes to dairy farms and much more.
PHOTO: MISSET UITGEVERIJ
Dairy
Global hosted the very exciting
webinar Advanced Dairy Farming during the Misset
International Webinar Week. The week kicked off on Monday 16 November and went through to 20 November 2020, with all our brands hosting various topics.
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