Dairy Farming Course A good Dairy farming Course can teach you how to start dairy farming from scratch. The dairy farming industry has grown tremendously in the past three decades and India is the largest milk-producing countries in the world with an estimate of 146.31 million tons of milk production on an annual basis which is around 22% of the global milk production. USA and China are at the second and third position respectively behind India in the world milk production ranking. However, still the dairy farming is practiced in India in primitive fashion. Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh […]
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Cow Housing in Dairy Farming – Hygiene and Management Cow housing has paramount importance in dairy farming and proper execution in housing can maximize efficiency in dairy farming. Dairy farming is a process that includes breeding, milking, and producing milk products. Cattle housing is the place where cows are kept for eating, sleeping, and breeding. The goal of cow housing is to provide a place for cows to live so they can produce milk as efficiently as possible. Cow Housing forms a part of advanced Animal Management. When we talk about animal management, we are talking of everything, starting […]
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Record keeping in Dairy Farming is extremely important for a successful and profitable business. Without proper record keeping, the dairy farmers have to rely on their memory for making crucial decisions. Record keeping in dairy farming relates to maintaining a record of everything from livestock, calving, growth, vaccination, product yield, feeding, etc. Maintenance of records not only provides easy access to the important information as and when required but also helps in measuring the progress of the business. Let us understand the types of records that should be maintained, how they should be maintained and what the benefits of maintaining […]
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What is the Process of Silage Making is one of the most frequently asked question in Dairy farming. We have seen types of silage, production process, its advantage & importance in milk business, in previous article on Silage Making. Process of Silage Making Let us learn in detail, the Silage making process step by step from corn plantation with bag or pit method. How much should we sow for Process of Silage Making ? Per acre corn sowing for silage production For actual corn plantation, we can use calculation of plantation of corn on about 2 acres of […]
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Introduction to Dairy Farming in India Dairy farming in India has been prevalent from the times immemorial. It is generally viewed as family business that has been passed down from generations to generations. One of the foremost dairy farming persona was Gopal – Shri Krishna. In India, dairy farming and agriculture go hand in hand. The farmers rear cows and buffalo along with their full time agriculture business, to make some extra bucks. As the time passed, this so called family business found its way into a new era of dairy farming that was much more organized, technologically advanced and as […]
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Like any other business, you should know How to Run Profitable Dairy Farm even when Milk Prices are low. Milk prices at the producer level, are always fluctuating in the Indian dairy market. They change according to the global milk powder rates. At present they are at their record low levels. In states such as Maharashtra milk producers often have had to manage with per liter milk price of Rs. 16-17 . So, how do we survive and manage dairy farming business with such milk prices? If you are using the fodder grown in your own farm, you are forgoing […]
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Loose housing dairy farm plays vital role in Modern Dairy farming in India. It helps in reducing labour hours and labour costs as well as reduction in expenses through decrease in diseases among cows and buffaloes of your Dairy Farm. Traditional methods and their shortcomings Indian farmer has been traditionally practicing age old methods in dairy farming. There are very few examples wherein number of milch animals have increased in a particular dairy farm following the traditional farming methods. For example, if a farmer is having one cow this year, considering the amount of calves it will give birth to, he should have four to five […]
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Importance of hybrid cows and the associated Records Healthy cows is the key for a successful dairy farming business. Animals with good progeny also need special care and attention. For this we already learnt about dairy farm with loose housing and silage making in the articles here and here. All these modern techniques are useful only if we rear quality breeds in our dairy farm. Cows having inherent low milk production capacity and having low disease resistance, won’t give good results even with all other things being good. Thus, having quality crossbreed cow in our dairy farm is desirable. Now, where do you find such quality cows […]
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