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Jan 7
In the Wars With the Spores: Monitoring Facial Eczema on Your Farm this Summer
With humidity and temperatures rising, we are once again on the lookout for facial eczema. FVM uses four monitoring farms across the...
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Jan 6
Feeding through summer 2024/2025
Milk prices are forecast to be well up this season with the Fonterra midpoint now quoted at $10.00/KgMS. This increase in milk value...
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Dec 12, 2024
Book in your pregnancy testing
Quick reminder to book in your pregnancy testing if you haven’t already. To age all your pregnancies, you will generally have to do an...
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Dec 5, 2024
Heat stress: a HOT topic
Heat stress can cause major issues in your herd. Dairy cattle, being a European animal, are not made for the Waikato heat and humidity....
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Nov 11, 2024
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Nov 8, 2024
The Importance of Completing an Animal Wellbeing Plan: Fonterra’s Cooperative Difference
Explaining the Importance of Completing an Animal Wellbeing Plan: Fonterra’s Cooperative Difference
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Oct 21, 2024
Do Your Non-Return Rates Seem Too Good to be True?
If your non-return rates seem too good to be true, they probably are! Here's what you need to know about phantom cows.
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Oct 7, 2024
Death By Diarrhoea - Spotlight on Salmonella
Several local herds diagnosed with Salmonella recently; what to look for, plus how to treat & prevent. Yersinia cases also on the rise
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Sep 13, 2024
Caught out with Ketosis?
There's lots of Ketosis around - Greg explains why, plus the implications & what you can do about it
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Sep 2, 2024
Scours Simplified: Dealing with Loose (Back) Ends
Mikayla breaks down the infectious causes of calf scours & your treatment options
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Jul 31, 2024
Getting in the MOOOd: A Pre-emptive Guide to Mating this Year
Keep in-calf rates up this season with Ella's guide to mating
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Jul 25, 2024
How This Spring is Unfolding
Here's a quick rundown on the cases our vets are seeing more of this spring, & what it might mean for your herd
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Jul 2, 2024
Minimizing Your Chance of Milk Fever - What We Know
Greg's advice on how to avoid Milk Fever this calving
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Jun 21, 2024
Copper Toxicity Diagnosed Locally
Local herd diagnosed with Copper Toxicity - do you know your herd's copper status?
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Jun 12, 2024
Looking Back on Dry-off
Our perspective on using drycow + teatseal vs teatseal only in cows, and a little on the logistics of getting teatseal into heifers.
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May 24, 2024
Preventing Calf Scours - The New Player in the Game
Preventing calf scours - choosing the right scour vaccine can be confusing. Here's the lowdown on Biobos RCC, new to the market this year.
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May 13, 2024
Pesky Parasites in young stock
Parasite management in young stock. When and what to drench with?
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May 7, 2024
The Lowdown on Johnes Testing
Johnes disease testing, control & prevention is complicated, so make sure you understand the ins & outs before throwing money at testing.
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Mar 5, 2024
Decoding your mastitis test results
As we see an increase in targets to reduce antibiotic usage, assisting in making appropriate culling decisions, and keep milk in the vat,...
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Jan 16, 2024
Heat stress: a HOT topic
Coming into summer it is important to recognise the impact that heat stress has on your dairy herd. Dairy cattle, being a European...
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