Interesting thing of the day was getting some insight from the business owner of the farm I work at how the various bits of the business hang together - 2 dairies, calf breeding for beef, holstein, and wagyu, cropping, rotational grazing and crops chosen, how many calves per year, how long they spend on each property and what for, milk solids yield on a seasonal basis and quality thereof, pregnancy success from AI (the good kind, not the dumb computer kind) program, sale rates, semen and bloodline import sources, water rights and licenses and percentage usage of that water to ensure compliance, plus water and dairy solid waste reuse.

Thing I was most fascinated by was the aggregation and normalisation of data from two sources (dairy management software and breeding management software) and seeing deep data dance in PowerBI.

Don't anyone ever think that a successful agricultural business isn't complex and that farming is hicks chewing on a grass stalk.

I've made it clear (I hope) to the owner that I'd jump at the chance to spend a little time working in different parts of the business to get better insight into how everything moves.

#dairy #DairyFarming #agriculture #agribusiness

Interesting thing of the day was getting some insight from the business owner of the farm I work at how the various bits of the business hang together - 2 dairies, calf breeding for beef, holstein, and wagyu, cropping, rotational grazing and crops chosen, how many calves per year, how long they spend on each property and what for, milk solids yield on a seasonal basis and quality thereof, pregnancy success from AI (the good kind, not the dumb computer kind) program, sale rates, semen and bloodline import sources, water rights and licenses and percentage usage of that water to ensure compliance, plus water and dairy solid waste reuse.

Thing I was most fascinated by was the aggregation and normalisation of data from two sources (dairy management software and breeding management software) and seeing deep data dance in PowerBI.

Don't anyone ever think that a successful agricultural business isn't complex and that farming is hicks chewing on a grass stalk.

I've made it clear (I hope) to the owner that I'd jump at the chance to spend a little time working in different parts of the business to get better insight into how everything moves.

#dairy #DairyFarming #agriculture #agribusiness

The climate crisis demands accountability from Big Ag, just as it does from Big Oil.

Let's #StopBigAg:

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-big-meat-and-dairy/

#RoastingThePlanet #AgroecologyNow #BigAg #meat #dairy #food

As someone who works in the dairy industry, I’m telling you: don’t drink raw milk unless you’re keen on getting sick.

There’s nothing specifically wrong or bad about raw milk, but unless your gut has been conditioned to the biota in it over a long period, you probably won’t handle it. At best you’ll get a nasty case of the runs, at worst, a bacterial infection that will put you in the hospital.

There’s a reason processors pasteurised milk.

#dairy #milk
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-19/raw-milk-trend-worries-experts/105636166?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

As someone who works in the dairy industry, I’m telling you: don’t drink raw milk unless you’re keen on getting sick.

There’s nothing specifically wrong or bad about raw milk, but unless your gut has been conditioned to the biota in it over a long period, you probably won’t handle it. At best you’ll get a nasty case of the runs, at worst, a bacterial infection that will put you in the hospital.

There’s a reason processors pasteurised milk.

#dairy #milk
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-19/raw-milk-trend-worries-experts/105636166?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Everything old is new again. Tilba milk in refillable 1l bottles at the co-op in Bega. 😊

#food #dairy