Today's Farm Mar-Apr 2010

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MARCH-APRIL 2010 VOLUME 21 NUMBER 2

A close-up look at the Greenfield Dairy Site Managing against Mastitis 14 Heat detectives 17 Calved cows: how much to feed 20 Why fat is bad for your bottom line 23 Early grass for BETTER beef profits 26 Taking the fluke out of sheep production 29 The latest on area aid 30 Tillage: squeeze spring weeds 32 Harvest brings horses back to the forest 36 Plus Botanic gardens, farm safety and more...


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Figure 1: Injury Triangle Person

Workplace environment

Agent of injury

Figure 2: Dairy farmer fatalities Causes: 2000-2007 8% Falls 9% Collapse/ falling object

5% Other 27% Livestock

12% Machinery 17% Drowning

22% Tractors



Figure 1: Breed weights At a given level of fatness

HEAVIEST Belgian Blue Blonde D’Aquitaine Charolais Simmental Limousin Hereford Angus

LIGHTEST




Calving interval Days

420 410 401

400 390 380 370

373

369

360 350 340

2007-2008

2008-209

Group average

Calving Pattern 07/08 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0

08/09

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

Total gain, Feb-July 09 kg

193kg (1.3kg/day)

1000 1.49kg/da y over 64 900 1.16kg/da days 800 y over 61 (Apr-Jun) 0.86kg/day days after 700 turnout over 600 100-day winter 590 500 561 400 465 397 300 314 200 100 0 10/11/08 17/02/09 27/04/09 30/06/09 22/07/09













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