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Calves & Heifers
Diseases of young dairy calves
Health and Mating Management of Heifers from Weaning to First Calving
Heifer Nutrition from Weaning to First Calving
How to Recognise Sick Calves
How to Stomach Tube a Calf
Humane Destruction of Non-viable Calves less than 24 Hours Old (PDF 131kb)
Crops & Pastures for Dairying Areas
Forage Cereals-Establishment (PDF 171kb)
Forage Cereals: Harvest and Storage - Harvesting Whole-Crop Cereal Silage (PDF 124kb)
Forage Cereals: Harvest and Storage - Storage of Whole-Crop Cereal Silage (PDF 168kb)
Forage Cereals: Harvest and Storage - When to Cut for Whole-Crop Cereal Silage (PDF 123kb)
Grasses for Dryland Dairying Tall Fescue: Management for Production and Persistence (PDF 311kb)
Grasses for Dryland Dairying: Tall Fescue: Species and Cultivars (PDF 96kb)
Grasses for Dryland Dairying:Tall Fescue: Establishment (PDF 291kb)
Discussion Groups
Dairy Discussion Group Coordinators (PDF 47kb)
Dairy Farmer Discussion Groups (PDF 102kb)
Forming a Dairy Discussion Group (PDF 47kb)
Running Dairy Discussion Group Meetings
Diseases & Health
Acetonaemia (Ketosis) of Dairy Cows (PDF 40kb)
Annual ryegrass toxicity
Anthrax in Animals (PDF 42kb)
Benefits of NLIS on Dairy Farms (PDF 174kb)
BJD: Avoiding Bovine Johne's Disease when Agisting Cattle (PDF 64kb)
BJD: Bovine Johne's Disease: Alternatives for Affected Land (PDF 69kb)
BJD: Bovine Johne's Disease: Guidelines for Shows and Sales (PDF 53kb)
BJD: Control Options for Bovine Johne's Disease in Dairy Herds (PDF 70kb)
BJD: Diagnostic Tests for Bovine Johne’s Disease (PDF 56kb)
BJD: Enhanced Trading Options for Dairy Herds in the Victorian Johne’s Disease Control Program (PDF 51kb)
BJD: Enhanced Trading Options for Land Carrying Dairy Cattle in the Johne’s Disease Calf Accreditation Program (JDCAP) and the Revised Test and Control Program (TCP2) (PDF 52kb)
BJD: Herd Testing Programs to Control Bovine Johne's Disease (PDF 62kb)
BJD: Johne’s Disease Calf Accreditation Program (JDCAP) (PDF 45kb)
BJD: Keeping Bovine Johne's Disease out of a Herd (PDF 66kb)
BJD: Minimising the Risk of BJD in a Dairy Bull Beef Enterprise (PDF 50kb)
BJD: Purchasing Dairy Cattle and Minimising the Risk of Buying Bovine Johne’s Disease (PDF 48kb)
BJD: Support for Owners of Bovine Johne's Disease Affected Herds (PDF 80kb)
BJD: TCP2 - A New Approach to Herd Testing for Johne’s Disease in Victorian Dairy Cattle Herds (PDF 50kb)
BJD: The Dairy BJD Assurance Score - the Higher the Score the Higher the Assurance (PDF 132kb)
BJD: Understanding Bovine Johne's Disease Statuses (PDF 53kb)
BJD: Vendor Declaration for Bovine Johne's Disease (PDF 90kb)
BJD: What is Bovine Johne's Disease? (PDF 50kb)
BJD: What is CattleMAP? (PDF 65kb)
BJD: Why Control Bovine Johne's Disease? (PDF 56kb)
BJD: Zoning for Bovine Johne's Disease (PDF 79kb)
Blue-green Algal Poisoning of Stock (PDF 50kb)
Bovine Johne’s Disease: Legal Requirements? (PDF 48kb)
Bovine Virus Diarrhoea - Mucosal Disease (BVD-MD) (PDF 72kb)
Bracken Fern Poisoning of Cattle (PDF 38kb)
BSE and the Ruminant Feed Ban (PDF 55kb)
BSE (Mad Cow Disease) (PDF 55kb)
Clostridial Diseases of Livestock (PDF 47kb)
Control of Liver Fluke (PDF 85kb)
Dairy Effluent: Infectious Diseases and Animal Health (PDF 47kb)
EBL: Enzootic Bovine Leucosis (PDF 69kb)
EBL: Herd Sampling for EBL Screening (PDF 73kb)
EBL: The Victorian EBL Eradication Program (PDF 48kb)
EBL: Understanding EBL Herd Statuses (PDF 51kb)
Endophyte in perennial grasses: effect on host plants and livestock
Eye Cancer in Cattle
Facial eczema of sheep and cattle
Heliotrope toxicity in sheep and cattle
How to Recognise Sick Calves
Leptospirosis (PDF 50kb)
Livestock cancers
Lumpy Jaw (PDF 54kb)
Milk Fever (Hypocalcaemia) in Cows
Nitrate and Nitrite Poisoning of Livestock (PDF 73kb)
NLIS - Understanding Lifetime Traceable Status
NLIS: How to Determine Lifetime Traceable Status of your Cattle
NLIS: National Livestock Identification Scheme and Carcase Feedback
NLIS: On-farm Benefits
Nutritional Scours in Milk-fed Calves: Causes and Treatment (PDF 98kb)
Oestrogens in pasture, hay and silage
Ostertagia in Cattle
Perennial Ryegrass Toxicosis (PDF 135kb)
Pregnancy Toxaemia in Beef Cows (PDF 80kb)
Reading NLIS Tags Using a Handheld Reader (PDF 196kb)
Reading NLIS Tags Using a Panel Reader (PDF 136kb)
Recognising foot and mouth
Registering on the NLIS Database to Allow Access - A Step by Step Guide (PDF 146kb)
Setting up a Weighing System on Farm (PDF 141kb)
Setting up an Export Agent NLIS Database Account - A Step by Step Guide (PDF 133kb)
Toxins in endophyte infected perennial grasses
Warts on Cattle
Weighing and Condition Scoring Replacement Heifers and Dairy Cows
What is LPA and How Does it Relate to the NLIS (PDF 71kb)
Who Supplies NLIS Equipment and Software (PDF 33kb)
Economics
Buying an Irrigation (Dairy) Farm in Northern Victoria (PDF 76kb)
Effluent Management
Dairy effluent: Application to pastures
Dairy Effluent: Applying Dairy Shed Effluent to Land (PDF 61kb)
Dairy Effluent: Boosting winter growth with dairy effluent
Dairy Effluent: Building and Operating a Safe System (PDF 50kb)
Dairy Effluent: Choosing a Pond System (PDF 87kb)
Dairy Effluent: Choosing an Effluent Management System (PDF 109kb)
Dairy Effluent: Designing a Trafficable Solids Trap (PDF 104kb)
Dairy Effluent: Emergency Disposal of Milk on Farms (PDF 75kb)
Dairy Effluent: Flood Irrigation of Dairy Shed Effluent (PDF 445kb)
Dairy Effluent: Is the Farm's Effluent System Working Efficiently? (PDF 36kb)
Dairy Effluent: Management of Dairy Shed Effluent in Victoria (PDF 44kb)
Dairy Effluent: Minimising the Effluent Stream (PDF 80kb)
Dairy Effluent: Overview in Gippsland (PDF 38kb)
Dairy Effluent: Overview of Effluent Management in North-East Victoria (PDF 33kb)
Dairy Effluent: Overview of Effluent Management in the Northern Irrigation Region (PDF 48kb)
Dairy Effluent: Overview of Effluent Management in the South-West (PDF 44.4kb)
Dairy effluent: Pond Construction (PDF 97kb)
Dairy effluent: Pond Maintenance and Desludging (PDF 72KB)
Dairy Effluent: Pond Site Selection (PDF 52kb)
Dairy effluent: Protecting groundwater
Dairy Effluent: Pumps and Sumps (PDF 99kb)
Dairy Effluent: Sources of Information on Dairy Shed Effluent Management (PDF 174kb)
Dairy Effluent: Storage Pond Sizing (PDF 65KB)
Dairy effluent: Struvite management in dairy effluent systems
Dairy Effluent: Yard Flood Washing Systems (PDF 40kb)
Feeding & Nutrition
Comparing the cost of supplements on the basis of their nutritional value
Feeding and Calving Pads for Cattle (PDF 49kb)
Poultry Litter, Poultry Manure and Poultry Feed in Livestock Production Systems (PDF 47kb)
Reclaimed Water - Use in Cattle Production (PDF 62kb)
Self Feeding Silage (PDF 297kb)
Swill Feeding is Banned in Australia (PDF 64kb)
Handling & Management
Code of Accepted Farming Practice for the Welfare of Animals at Saleyards (PDF 130kb)
Code of Practice for Welfare of Farm Animals During Transportation
Managing Wet Soils
Farm drainage
Managing Wet Soils: Case Study of Feedpad Use (PDF 180kb)
Managing Wet Soils: Case Study of Stand-off Areas
Managing Wet Soils: Case Study of Subsurface Drainage -1
Managing Wet Soils: Case Study of Subsurface Drainage - 2 (PDF 37kb)
Managing Wet Soils: Determining Which Subsurface Drainage System to Use (PDF 150kb)
Managing Wet Soils: Feedpads and Stand-off Areas (PDF 61kb)
Managing Wet Soils: Grazing Techniques
Managing Wet Soils: Mole Drainage (PDF 230kb)
Managing Wet Soils: On-off Grazing
Managing Wet Soils: Planning Farm Drainage (PDF 95kb)
Managing Wet Soils: Renovation of Damaged Pastures and Soils
Managing Wet Soils: Subsurface Pipe Drainage (PDF 156kb)
Managing Wet Soils: Surface Drainage
Managing Wet Soils: Types of Subsurface Drainage (PDF 271kb)
Managing wet soils: what are your best options?
Managing wet soils: what off-paddock system?
Milk & Milking
Nutrition and milk composition
Questions about milk precoolers
The Benefits of Herd Recording (PDF 53Kb)
Reproduction & Breeding
Assessing Dairy Cows Using ABV's (PDF 44kb)
Calving Induction in Dairy Cows (PDF 39kb)
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