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Courses & Resources

Courses

Dairy SA supports a range of practical courses aimed at improving the productivity and profitability of your farming business.  The present courses available are listed below.  

Farmer Short Courses
SA Regional coordinator:  Kirstie Murphy  T: 08 8536 3958  M: 0408 088 624  E: kmurphy@adam.com.au

CowTime Shed Shake-ups & Courses
Courses, resources and milking monitor service.
Contact Verity Ingham  T: 08 8766 01227

TopFodder Farmer Short Courses
An on-line resource for quality silage production, providing you with access to the most comprehensive collection of information and expertise about silage in Australia.
SA Regional Contact:  Tim Prance  T: 08 8552 8058  M: 0427 812 655  E: Prance.Tim@saugov.sa.gov.au

A course on dairy cow feeding, nutrition and grazing management.

A course for SA dairy farmers designed for SA conditions and offers a wide range of information on best practice fertiliser and nutrient management.

  • Cups on Cups off

    A hands on course for farm & staff training in CountDown DownUnder principles of milk harvesting , mastitis control & prevention.

A national learning program working with Australian dairy farmers and their advisers to achieve measured improvement in herd reproductive performance.

Count Down Down Under.

SA has developed the Dairy ManaJD program to assist dairy farmers in managing Bovine Johne's Disease. Contact your local PIRSA office for more details.

January 2006 SA Dairy ManaJD Program Update Report pdf (15kb)

Fact sheets on BJD are available from the Vic DPI

Taking Stock is an industry-wide opportunity for dairy farmers to review how their business is traveling, identify the most important issues affecting the business and look at ways of ensuring sustainable profitability.

TAFESA

TafeSA provides accredited training for dairy farmers and Traineeships at ATQF levels 2&3
Training includes Supervisory & Management training and Rural Business Management. Short courses are available in Artificial Insemination; Milk Harvesting; Dairy Cow Health; Calf Rearing; Dairy Nutrition; Chemical Training; Machinery Maintenance; ATV and Motor cycle Operations; and Front-End-Loader Ticket.

TafeSA shortcourse dates are in Dairy Diary


Resources

The Feeding Dairy Cows Manual

The Feeding Dairy Cows Manual is a comprehensive 266 page reference manual.  It covers all aspects of feeding dairy cows in South Australia.  The manual includes:

  • Getting Started in Cow Nutrition
  • What's in Feeds?
  • How the Rumen works
  • Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cows
  • How Feed Requirements Change During Lactation
  • Pasture Quality & Cow Intake
  • Optimising Pasture Growth, Quality & Utilisation
  • Supplements
  • Effects of Supplements on Pasture Intake
  • Formulating a Diet
  • Diet and its Effect on Milk Production and Body Condition
  • Nutrition and Fertility
  • Nutrition and Dairy Replacements

Cost $110 plus postage

Contact: DairySA  T: 08 8766 0127 

Dairy Farm Fertiliser Facts Applications Productivity Manual

A comprehensive resource compiling fertiliser information from a range of sources including Departments of Primary Industries, Fertiliser Companies & Research information.  The manual includes:

  • Soil Nutrients
  • Monitoring Nutrient Levels
  • Fertiliser Products
  • Nutrient Budgeting
  • Nutrient Availability
  • Nutrient Variation
  • Applying Fertiliser
  • Strategic Use of Fertiliser
  • Dairy Wastes
  • Crop & Pasture Species
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Nutrient Recycling
  • Irrigation

Cost: $110 plus postage

Contact:  DairySA  T: 08 8766 0127

Condition Magician

The condition magician is a comprehensive guide to body condition scoring your herd.

Cost:  $11 plus postage

Contact Kirstie Murphy  T: 08 8536 3958  M: 0408 088 624  E: kmurphy@adam.com.au

Heifer Rearing

A 135 page Guide To Rearing Dairy Replacement Heifers in Australia

The first comprehensive coverage of the diverse subjects covered by the term 'heifer rearing' throughout Australia.  The book includes chapters on the benefits of better grown heifers, target mating and calving live weights and ages, feeding and mating management, and disease prevention.  It concludes with an economic evaluation of the costs and return from improved systems for rearing heifers and a summary of the best management practices for rearing dairy replacement heifers.  The authors of the various chapters have been drawn from all over Australia & New Zealand and are acknowledged as experts in their field.  They provide, in an accessible, easy to read format, the latest technical and economic information.  Edited by John Moran and Douglas McLean, 2001.

Cost:  $38.50 plus postage

Contact DairySA  T: 08 8766 0127

Natural Resource Management 

Dairying for Tomorrow

A website dedicated to providing information about Natural Resource Management in the Australian dairy industry.

For more information contact the State Dairying for Tomorrow Coordinator: Monique White T: 0400 972 206

Targets for Change

Targets for Change is a Dairying for Tomorrow initiative, in which a process was developed to link catchment-level environmental targets and farm-level environmental targets. The process - and examples from pilot projects that trialled the process - are described in the document "Targets for Change: Setting Resource Management Targets for Australian Farms" (pdf 548kb).

NRM Action Plan

Funding

FarmBis

DairySA

Funding for Dairy Discussion Group activities and dairy industry related small projects

Contacts:

 

 

Bob Holman, Mt Barker Campus (08 8391 7375)
  Tony Sutherland, O’Halloran Hill Campus ( 08 8177 3469)
 

Mark Thompson, Mt Gambier Campus (08 8735 1449)
Author:  Dairy Industry WEBMASTER
Last Updated:  May 28, 2008, 3:52 pm
URL:  http://www.dairyindustrysa.com.au/industry_organisations/dairysa/courses__and__resources  
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