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Sep 2018 Newsletter #109

September 20, 2018 by MDF

The Solar Dairy Project – Nearly done and Field Day notice for October 10th2018; MDF AGM & Dairy Industry Forum and Dinner October 23rd 2018; Call for Nominations for MDF Directors; Call for Nominations for RF (Bob) Pitman Award; Extension of the VTYeast Trial for a 300-day lactation; Farewell Rachael Finch – You leave with our thanks; Milk fever – MDF Trials Animate this season; Pasture in the zone – Calculating Readily Available Water (RAW); Season 2017-18 … Another strong performance; Have you renewed your LPA accreditation yet?; MDF Demonstrating Dairy Futures Forum – What’s been happening since?

MDF NEWSLETTER 109-2018-9

 

 

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The Macalister Demonstration Farm, formerly the Macalister Research Farm, is a farmer-owned co-operative established on April 13th 1960. A collaboration between dairy farmers of the MID and the Department of Agriculture at Maffra resulted in the … Read More

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