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The Better Herd Podcast

Dec 16, 2020

NAIT is New Zealand’s animal identification and tracing system for cattle and deer.

It provides New Zealand livestock owners, processors and government with timely and quality information on the current location, movement history and other useful information associated with livestock.

New legislation around the use of...


Nov 29, 2020

Getting cows in calf is a critical part of dairy farming.

Pregnancy testing can provide you with valuable information to help you make good management decisions about what needs to happen and when.

Determining the pregnancy status of your herd via milk can be done as part of your CRV herd test.

Listen to DairyNZ animal...


Nov 15, 2020

Forward thinking dairy farmers are breeding hornless animals to future proof their business.

Breeding hornless calves saves farmers time, money and improves animal welfare.

In this podcast, Okoroire farmer Floyd Smit joins CRV’s Jenna O’Sullivan and Rosanna Dickson to talk about breeding with Polled genetics.

70% of...


Nov 1, 2020

University research has shown that the stronger the intensity of a cow’s estrous (heat), the better chance she has of holding her pregnancy.

These findings could help New Zealand dairy farmers improve the fertility of their herd by having a heat detection plan in place to ensure animals are put up for AI when their...


Jul 29, 2020

CRV has seen real growth in interest in dairy beef over the last few seasons.

The company offers Dairy Beef sires that have been screened carefully for short gestation and good growth rates. These sires work well in both the dairy and dairy beef industries.

For this podcast, we have brought together breeders of...