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Tools & Guides

Decision making tools

  1. Economic Analysis of Switching from 2X to 3X Milking - Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability  »

Hoof health tools

The Welfare Quality Lameness Control Programme for Dairy Cattle

The DairyCo Healthy Feet Programme is a step-wise approach which will help dairy farmers make important progress towards diagnosing the problems, devising an action plan, and develop the skills necessary for long-term lameness control.

12 Cow Behaviours and Cow Flow by Neil Chesterton

Cow Flow and Stockmanship by Neil Chesterton

Guides & Instructions

  1. Diagonal lying - decision tree  »
  2. Flowchart for evaluating free stalls  »
  3. Bio-security for agribusinesses  »
  4. Bio-security for producers  »

Dairy world

The IFCN milk quantity converter

The Milk Quantity Converter is an easy tool to play with in order to transform quantities across 7 different units of measurement commonly adopted across the globe.

Read more about the Milk Quantity Converter here

Reports

  1. NZ Dairy statistics 2009-2010 (LIC)  »
  2. IDF World Dairy Situation 2010  »

Automatic milking

Management guidelines for pasture-based AMS farms

Automatic milking

VMS Best Practices from DeLaval

Milk Quality Tools

  1. Milk quality self assessment test  »
  2. Do you know how much mastitis is costing you?  »
  3. Monitor and maintain milking machine function  »
  4. NMC Recommended Mastitis Control Program - International version  »
  5. NMC Recommended Mastitis Control Program - North American version  »

Tools & Guides

The Tools & Guides section contains manuals, instructions, calculators and guidelines within different areas of milk production.