Please be informed that the 40th Meeting of Dairy Club (Joint Venture of Alltech and UVAS) was held on Friday November 28, 2014 at Syndicate Room UVAS. Following was the agenda of meeting:
Topic |
A look on modern Dairy Farming in America…How we can improve our dairy farms efficiency in Pakistan |
Speaker |
Dr. Faisal Nawaz
Nestle |
Minutes of meetings are as follows:
Dr. Shahzad Naveed Jadoon opened the house and gave warm welcome to the participants. He introduced explained the agenda and invited the speaker to share his experience.
Dr. Faisal Nawaz, Nestle Pakistan presented his experience he had last month in visiting commercial dairy farm in different states of US including Florida and Wisconsin.
Top Dairy Producing States of US:
- California
- Wisconsin
- Idaho
- New York
- Pennsylvania
Genetics:
- Commercial dairy producer in US focus on improved genetics to get maximum production and performance.
- The have set bench marks in terms of milk production and reproductive performance due to which they are having top genetics of the world at the moment.
- As they focus to keep elite animals at the farm, culling rate is high.
- Meat price support them to practice frequent culling.
Genomic Bulls and Embyo Tranfer:
- Modern techniques in animal reproduction are in practice including sexing technologies
Cow Comfort:
- Cow comfort is given prime importance to get optimum performance from animals
Housing:
There are many Environmentally controlled sheds in Florida. Average production at the one of the farms was 40 Liters/cow/day. Whereas in the same region, average production in open sheds was around 30 Liters/cow/day.
What we need to Improve?
- Feeding Efficiency
- Feeding frequency
- Fodder crops , crop rotation
- Improved silage making practices
- Toxin free feed
- Feed store management
- Breeding Efficiency
- Heat spotting
- AI techniques
- Bull selection
- Calf & Heifer growth rate
- First insemination age
At the end of presentation, hall was opened for questions/answers/comments.
Shiraz Altaf, Altaf and Co:
We can not say that environmentally controlled shed are responsible for success or failures of te dairy farms. It is in fact the combination of genetics housing, feeding and managemental practices which defines the success of dairy enterprise.
Dr. Adnan, SMEDA:
Environmentally controlled sheds have been proven in US as well as in Pakistan to give elite genetics a comfortable housing to support high production and performance. We should not take risk in rearing the US genetics in ordinary open sheds conditions which has already wasted a lot of money and investors got disappointed.
Dr. Asad Ullah Khan, Dada Dairy:
For practicing Embryo Transfer technology in elite Holstein animals, what factors we should consider to get maximum performance?
Dr. Faisal:
We need to provide the animals a comfortable housing, feeding according to their requirements and right health measures.
Shiraz Altaf:
We need to target the growth of the sector, benefit of the humanity and country then think on personal or business benefits. This is how we can get maximum benefit out of modern technology. We have to give priority to our national benefit first.
Dr. Muhammad Zafar Ullah Khan announced about the achievement of Dr. Shahzad Naveed Jadoon, GM Alltech Pakistan Pvt Ltd on receiving medal and cash award on M.Phil degree completion. All audiences gave a big round of applause to appreciate and congratulate Dr. Jadoon
At the end Dr. Shahzad Naveed summarized the meeting and paid thanks to the speaker and participants.
The Program for next meeting has been aligned as under:
Topic: Modern breeding techniques in the west to be adopted by modern dairy industry of Pakistan: Artificial Insemination and Embryo transfer
Speaker: Mr. Shiraz Altaf, Director, Altaf and Co.
Date: Monday 15 Dec, 2014
Time: 5:00PM
Venue: Syndicate Room , UVAS, Lahore
Hope you would be able to take some time out from your busy schedule and join us.
Many thanks to our speakers and participants for contributions; we wish them great success in their dairy career. |
