Dairy Cow Fertility
Infertility has been identified as the number one problem on dairy farms and is estimated to cost dairy farmers in Northern Ireland approximately £50 million per year. Improving fertility performance, by addressing management factors contributing to poor fertility, will decrease culling rates and reduce replacement costs.
This is an online application that will allow you to:
- Assess the fertility performance of your herd.
- Compare it with other herds of a similar calving pattern.
- Identify weaknesses in your herds's fertility performance and identify ways to improve it.
- Assess how much extra profit you could make through improving your herd's fertility performance.
Fertility performance of the Future herd is benchmarked through Fertility Benchmarking Online, a new benchmarking application launched by CAFRE in August 2006. Fertility Benchmarking Online has been developed to allow farmers to benchmark their herd fertility performance from year to year and against herds of similar calving pattern.
Technolgy transfer is the process of investigation, demonstration and on-farm adoption of new and existing technologies. Relevant technologies are demonstrated by CAFRE Development Advisers and Technologists to farmers through publications, press articles, farm demonstrations, training courses and Challenge” programmes. Through the Challenge programmes, farmers receive on-farm mentoring to assist them in adopting suitable technology. A wide range of fertility related technologies have been developed by CAFRE Technologists. Further information is available from the link above.