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Building better calves for performance and profitability

Building Better Calves: Nutritech’s 2025 Calf Range Delivers Performance and Profitability Raising strong, healthy calves is the cornerstone of a productive and profitable Dairy or Beef operation. Nutritech’s newly updated Calf Range is designed to help farmers rear robust calves with optimal health, growth, and lifetime performance – whether for dairy or beef systems. At […]

Beef, Calf, Dairy

Is Leaky Gut Behind Poor Peak Milk Yield?

Ketosis, reproductive challenges and poor peak milk yield… Is ‘leaky gut’ to blame? The answer is yes, leaky gut can play a significant role in all three. But how are they linked and what does it mean for you on farm? To answer this question, we first need to take a step back and understand […]

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When calves have a good rest, so do the farmers

Nutritech, in combination with Lallemand Animal Nutrition, has launched EazyBed® Pro – a specific bacterial bedding conditioner to help maintain dry, hygienic bedding. To rear healthy calves for optimum lifetime performance, we need to provide proper nutrition and a healthy environment for the calves supported by good overall management. To achieve the objective of rearing […]

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Want to improve your calf’s health and immunity?

Nutritech is going from great to even better with a new and improved DanCalf® Gold milk additive this season. With the spring calving season shortly upon us, it’s a reminder of the stress of rearing calves especially when we get sick, scouring calves. While using whole milk to feed calves is convenient, it can be […]

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Facial Eczema

New ways to supplement zinc for facial eczema. Getting enough zinc into youngstock and dairy cattle to help prevent facial eczema is an ongoing challenge. No method is perfect, and blood testing for zinc is critical to ensure serum zinc levels are sufficient for facial eczema prevention. Water, feed and bolusing have been the main […]

Beef, Calf, Dairy, Sheep

New technologies improve silage quality

New Zealand farm businesses can significantly reduce silage spoilage and retain more nutrients in their forage thanks to improvements in silage preservation technologies. At a time when feed costs are rising, it is now more important than ever to reduce the impact of silage losses to retain valuable, locally grown feed. What are silage losses? […]

Beef, Calf, Dairy, Miscellaneous

Should we stress about heat stress?

A large US study found that severe heat stress (above 25°C) can cause significant financial losses across all species (St Pierre et al., 2003). An estimated 80% of these losses were associated with loss of productivity and 20% with health issues. In ruminants many of those losses were due to rumen acidosis problems and related [...]
Beef, Calf, Dairy

Biotin and its role in improving hoof health.

Biotin (Vitamin H or B7) is an essential water-soluble vitamin. It is naturally present in some feeds and can be synthesised by rumen microbes.  Usually, ruminal biotin synthesis supplies sufficient biotin for biological functions, however, diets containing high quantities of grain may reduce the natural synthesis of Biotin by the rumen. Biotin for hoof hardness. […]

Beef, Calf, Dairy

Attention to Detail and Observation key to Profitable Calf Rearing

Nutritech Area Managers were delighted to have the opportunity to listen to Karen Fraser (formerly of Rakaia Island) and now NRM’s Calf & Nutrition Specialist give her opinions on practical calf rearing during the lockdown. Here are some of her take home tips: Good calf rearing starts with mum, at mating, then dry off and [...]
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Calf Rearing Basics

Giving your calves a great start in life has its rewards – healthy animals mean better returns. This Nutritech calving guide provides some coaching on how to create the optimum environment and conditions to enable your calves to flourish. Shelter Calves should be sheltered indoors for at least three to four weeks after birth. A [...]
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