Rodney Elliott has been dairy farming in South Dakota since 2006.
Antibiotics are no longer used on any lactating animals on Rodney Elliott’s 6,000-cow dairy farm in South Dakota, USA.
Elliott, who is originally from Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh, moved to the USA in 2006 to set up Drumgoon Dairy.
“We are just into our third year of using no antibiotics on lactating cows. It’s been amazing the results we have seen with it,” he told the Ulster Grassland Society on Tuesday.
Elliott decided to stop using antibiotics in the milking herd after residues were found in a cull cow, despite on-farm records indicating that she was three days past the withdrawal period.
The Irish Farmers Journal lost a close friend when Robin Morrow passed away on Thursday morning, 1 April, after a brief illness.
WR Morrow was a man with a huge passion for agriculture, agribusiness and farming politics. He was a born leader, always prepared to state his views and debate the consequences. But while he might disagree strongly, he could agree to differ. He did not bear grudges and was quick to move on with the task in hand.
Having served as a club leader and president of the Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster, Robin moved on to leadership positions across the spectrum of farm organisations in Northern Ireland. Probably the most challenging was during the deregulation of milk marketing in the 1990s.
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March 1, 2021 11:14 am
New Zealand milk output will fall by 10% by 2030 as the country’s dairy industry confronts the combined challenge of improving water quality and reducing its carbon footprint to a net zero level.
These were two of the main points made by New Zealand dairy farmer and Dairy Holdings Ltd (DHL) chief executive, Colin Glass, during his presentation at the recent Ulster Grassland Society (UGS) annual conference.
Glass’s grandparents moved from a farm in Co. Antrim six decades ago to establish their own dairying enterprise on the outskirts of Canterbury on New Zealand’s South Island.
DHL is a dairy farming business comprising 76 farms at four locations on New Zealand’s South Island. The business is majority-owned by Kiwi shareholders with the business model anchored on the principle of producing as much milk from pasture as possible.