A combined workshop for the Global Farm Platform and the UK-India Partnering Award project ‘Health and welfare consequences of maladaptation of high-producing cross-bred dairy cattle to environmental stressors in India‘ will be held at the Hotel Flora International, … Read more ..
THIRUVANANDHAPURAM, India, June 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Worsening heat, fodder shortages and the threat of drought are forcing many hard-hit dairy farmers in the Anantapur area
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KVASU Vice Chancellor B. Ashok addressing delegates at the workshop. Seated, from left to right: Dr. Vijayakumar, Dr. T.P Sethumadhavan and Sri. K.T. Thomas (MRCMPU).
Dr. B. Ashok, the Vice Chancellor, of the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences … Read more ..
Grow – Wisconsin’s Magazine for the Life Sciences article about how College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) researchers are leading a far-reaching effort to gather information about greenhouse gases related to dairy—and to give farmers and other industry professionals … Read more ..
Vanishing profit margins in dairy farming are intensifying pressure on the ubiquitous, genetically elite, high-yielding Holstein milk cow. A radical change in strategy is needed — less-intensive agriculture and a reduction in consumer wastage (see www.wrap.org.uk/content/household-food-and-drink-waste-uk-2012) could more than … Read more ..
By Mark Eisler, University of Bristol; Graeme Martin, University of Western Australia, and Michael Lee, University of Bristol
Milk, a precious resource … Read more ..
