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There are only a few cattle breeds in existence that have no horns naturally but now American scientists are developing the trait within Holstein cattle. Horned animals provide a threat to other animals, farmers and dog walkers and only a handful of breeds such as Aberdeen Angus and Hereford have no horns. However, scientists in California have come up...

Many dairy farmers are familiar with the CowSignals concept. A recent addition to this training method is stress-free stockmanship. Joep Driessen, founder of this concept told about it more. A cow is constantly giving away signals to the farmer. The way she eats, stands, lies down, ruminates, has her ears positioned, etc. All these signals mean something and can mean discomfort, a disease...

In the first two months of 2017 U.S. exports of skimmed milk powder (SMP), whey powder and cheese were +17,5% in volume and +18,5 in value ($ 88 milion). The U.S. exported 100.134 tons of SMP (+19%) and sales improved mainly to Mexico (+15%) and to China (+96% YoY). Cheese imports were -24,4% in volume and -22,2% in value ($...

It is the first country to offer SMP to the measure since September 2016. Poland has become the first EU member state to offer skim milk powder (SMP) into public intervention in 2017. It is the first country to offer SMP to the measure since September 2016, after there w...

Milk purchase prices still keep downward trend and this week prices fell to 0.03-0.05 UAH. depending on the grade of milk. Analytical department of Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine announced this information. The amount of milk products production in this year January-February respond the rates of previous year...

Heat detection aids can help identify bulling cows and this is particularly important for herds using AI. Identifying cows on heat can be difficult, as the average heat only lasts nine hours and most "standing" activity occurs in the hours of darkness. Therefore,...

DeLaval Company gave an opportunity to milkUa.info users to have a virtual tour to Ukrainian dairy farms. Now you can “travel” to such farms: PE "Plemzavod "Stepnoi"" (Kamyansko-Dniprovskii region, Zaporizhya dis.), OJSC "Terezyne" (Kyiv reg., Bila Tserkva...

Dairy product prices increased by 1.6% at the latest Global Dairy Trade auction. This follows on from an increase of 1.7% at the last auction in March. Skimmed Milk Powder (SMP) showed a decrease of 0.8%, while Whole Milk Powder rose by 2.4%. The price index for Butter Milk Powder (BMP) recorded a big decline; a fall of 12.2% was se...

The most recent figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that Irish milk production continued to fall in 2017, with production in February dropping by 7.8% compared with the same month in 2016. Domestic milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers was estimated at 264.8m litres for February 2017. This represented a decrease of 22.3m litres compared with the previous February (2016)....

Only now, after the purchase prices for raw milk has declined, production of fresh dairy products becomes profitable.  This means that the cost of fresh dairy products will continue to gradually increase despite the sales are far not active. In mid-March Ukrainian dairy plants were selling their prod...