Question: I’ve heard that dairy cows can have serious problems with heat stress. Is it serious and what can I do to prevent it? Heat stress in dairy cattle can be prevented, but this condition still causes significant financial losses every year. Heat stress in dairy herds costs the milk…
Question: I’m a beef farmer, but am interested in starting a dairy. Do you have some advice? Not many new farmers consider going into dairy production, but if you already farm beef cattle, it may be a good idea to start dairy ranching. The demand for milk in developing countries…
Question: I would like to start a dairy and I live in a very hot and humid area. Which cattle breeds will work for me? A farmer does not need a lot of capital to get a dairy going. A wise move is to look at one of the hardier…
There is a general impression that it is easy to run a dairy – cows spend the day grazing and they only need to be milked every day. But dairy farming is much more complicated than this. A dairy could be run in a relatively simple way, but it needs…
Namibia’s best extensive dairy farmer for 2015 successfully combines the production of fresh milk and the growing out of oxen in tough, dry conditions on his farm. Pure-bred dairy cows are not suitable for extensive dairy production in the toughest parts of Namibia. As a result, extensive dairy farmers prefer…
Small-scale farmers own most of Zambia’s cattle but produce only 50% of the country’s milk. Given the value of milk as a food, this seems a pity when it is quite possible to improve milk production, without major capital injections, through small tweaks to management with significant outcomes. The Zambian…
