Farm Management Newsletters

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Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2010-02
• Conductivity and claw health
• Importance claw health
• Claw diseases

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2010-01
• Create a graphic in T4C
• Dynamic feeding
• Lely research; 90€ saving per cow/year

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Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-12
• Fat and protein indication
• Milking-Herd overview
• Power and water consumption

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-11
• First FMS Symposium
• Feeding strategy: individual feeding with the Atlantis
• QWES-HR for fertility and control of rumination

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-10
• Analysis of data in T4C
• Overcrowding and lying behaviour
• Results of FMS survey

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-09
• Use of the cosmix
• Free cow traffic
• Symposium

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-08
• Milk acces matrix in T4C
• Preference of cows for a specific robot
• Cows with free choice have less side preference

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter Special Edition
• FMS Symposium
• Training by Farm Management Support
• Special training for Robotic Farm Workers and Managers

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-07
• QWES-H
• Heat stress
• Practical use of the QWES-H

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-06
• Udder Health report
• Klebsiella mastitis
• survey

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-05
• Special T4C support e-mail address
• Dynamic feeding and milking
• Successful FMS Senior training

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-04
• What is new in T4C?
• PMR feeding versus TMR feeding
• Senior training Farm Management Support

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-03
• Free fatty acids
• Quality properties of forages

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-02
• High number of refusals
• The influence of feeding on robot visits

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-02 - special edition
• Lely Industries and Vetvice on world tour

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2009-01

  • Robot visit time and concentrates intake
  • Influence of milking interval on somatic cell count

Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-12

  • Vacuum and pulsation settings in T4C
  • Individual milk speed
  • Milk speed and genetics


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-11

  • How to makeselections in T4C
  • Prevent claw disorders; place a foot bath


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-10

  • Prevent failed milkings on the robot
  • More light more milk


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-09

  • Better udder health with combined attentions
  • Over 2,5 milkings for good quality milk
  • New Robot Management training


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-08

  • Efficient use of reports
  • New robot management training


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-07

  • Feeding concentrate
  • Calibrating feed
  • New robot management training for advisors


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-06

  • "Through" and "End" way of segregation
  • Start up procedure


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-05

  • Grazing
  • Advantages of a second computer


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-04

  • Free cow traffic less labour
  • Astronaut access settings


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-03

  • Three steps for safe treatments of cows
  • Cow routing


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-02

  • QWES-HR rumination tag
  • Comfort area in the barn
  • Robot management training


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2008-01

  • Robot visit and effective fiber
  • Barn Lay out brochure
  • Robot management training


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-12

  • Feed settings in T4C
  • MQC-C in practice
  • Robot management training


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-11

  • Motivation of cows to visit the robot
  • Treatment plans
  • Robot management training.


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-10

  • Qwes-H cow activity user interface
  • Prevent hoof infections


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-09

  • Robotic settings for optimal use of the robot; shocker settings 20 seconds
  • MMM on the website
  • Using cards to gain a quick understanding of the management program


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-08

  • What to check on every visit
  • Qwes-HR in practice


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-07

  • Relation between resting time and milk production
  • Removing the hair from the udder: shaving or singeing


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-06

  • Cow treatments
  • Udder health attentions with MQC and optional MQC-C (Cell count) sensor system


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-05

  • Settings for: "Cows too late for milking"
  • Feeding liquids in the Lely Astronaut


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-04

  • Group management with the robot
  • Start up procedure
  • What to do every day in T4C


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-03

  • Key figures on robotic milking farms
  • Grazing and robotic milking
  • Lely Cow-Robot efficiency


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-02

  • Robotic milking around the world
  • Mastitis bacteria en udder health


Monthly Farm Management Newsletter 2007-01

  • Weight information and negative energy balance
  • Economic effect of Lely Astronaut in Journal of Dairy Science
  • First training for German advisor.