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	<description>Maximise your herd's potential</description>
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		<title>Calf Rearing Field Day - 22nd July 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The P.C.R.A.A. is holding a field day on 22nd July 2010.
Registrations will commence at 10.30 a.m. at the farm of John and Sandra Horkings at Restdown Road, Rochester. Sandra raises their calves in a Redpath Ecoshelter and will talk about her calf rearing methods. A representative of Redpath Greenhouses will be available to answer questions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2010/07/05/calf-rearing-field-day-22nd-july-2010/</link>
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		<title>Rotary Dairy and plant for sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following dairy plant is for sale. It is installed on a farm which was converted from cropping to dairy about 2 years ago and which was sold about 2 months ago.
The new owners have no use for the plant and so would like to sell it before it deteriorates.
 
Any reasonable offer will be considered.
 
To arrange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2010/05/31/rotary-dairy-and-plant-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Calf weigh tapes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These make light work of weighing young calves and  we now have in stock weigh tapes designed specifically for weighing young calves. They are calibrated for greatest accuracy in 50 kg Holstein calves but will give a reasonable degree of accuracy in any calf up to about 100 kgs.
They are lightweight and easy to carry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2010/04/04/calf-weigh-tapes/</link>
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		<title>Story of Sabah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from working in Sabah, East Malaysia. The trip gave me the opportunity to gain an understanding of a dairy industry which is significantly different from many of the others I have seen in Europe, the U.S.A. &#38; Canada.
Even the sub-tropical dairy industries in Florida and Queensland are significantly different from the industry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2010/03/03/story-of-sabah/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Effective fibre&#8221; article on resource page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2009/12/28/effective-fibre-article-on-resource-page/</link>
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		<title>Survey for dairy farmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2009/12/08/survey-for-dairy-farmers/</link>
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		<title>P.C.R.A.A. sharing a stand with HEIFERMAX at International Dairy Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2009/12/05/pcraa-sharing-a-stand-with-heifermax-at-international-dairy-week/</link>
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		<title>Standard Operating Procedures are useful tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are accepted management tools in many industries. Quality control programmes such as ISO 9000 and HACCP rely on them to give consistent results, leading to uniformity of the end product or result.
The trend to single enterprise dairies milking large herds of cows and employing labour to do this has lead to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2009/10/01/standard-operating-procedures-are-useful-tools/</link>
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		<title>What is achievable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The north west of Tasmania has suffered badly in the last couple of months with heavy rains making paddocks very wet. Some farmers have had difficulty finding clean ground to calve cows down on and as a result, calf health in the district has suffered.
In contrast, the very first HEIFERMAX clients, who run a herd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2009/09/21/what-is-achievable/</link>
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		<title>Alliance with Ruminant Nutritionist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
HEIFERMAX is proud to announce that it has just formalised a business arrangement
 with Dr. Steve Sutherland, Ph.D., who is a ruminant nutritionist with multi-species
experience in both temperate and tropical climates. Dr. Sutherland&#8217;s passion
and enthusiasm for his work, will, coupled with his undoubted expertise,
deliver benefit to dairy farmers throughout S.E. Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 
The services Steve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heifermax.com.au/2009/09/18/alliance-with-ruminant-nutritionist/</link>
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