HEIFERMAX

Steve has just added an interesting article to the resource page about the role of fibre in the diet of ruminants.

If you have any comments about this or other articles, we would love to hear from you.

If you raise calves on a dairy and have 3 minutes to spare, why not go to the “Web Survey” page and answer our short survey?

Your answers will help us to help you better.

A range of  factors has combined to make the P.C.R.A.A. committee decide to hold its annual conference in conjunction with  International Dairy Week at Tatura.

The high quality speakers the P.C.R.A.A. attracts to its conference need around 12 months notice of an event. Consequently, due to the short time frame between making this decision and the date of the 2010 IDW, the P.C.R.A.A. will not hold a conference this coming year. In its place, they are planning to have a field day in the middle of the year - the details of this are not yet finalised but will be published on the P.C.R.A.A. (www.calfrearers.asn.au) website well prior to the day.

The 2011 conference will be held in the Tatura Sports Club, which has been booked for the 17^th Jan 2011; this is the first and quietest day of IDW. The venue can seat well over 200 and can provide morning and afternoon teas and lunch as well as an à la carte dinner.

This decision to change the venue will give the P.C.R.A.A. greater exposure to dairy farmers, who are the people who rear the majority of calves in Australia.

This coming year they will share a stand at IDW with HEIFERMAX, with a view to promoting the P.C.R.A.A. to a wider range of dairy farmers, many of whom do not know we exist.

We look forward to talking to farmers about their heifers & hearing about their successes and failures. See you there!