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NMR milk recording: current situation and future prospects
ICAR 2017
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Ben BartlettDirector, NMR [email protected]
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The GB milk recording market
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NMR Recording
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Range in performance across NMR herds
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- The top 10% of NMR herds measured in LTDY terms achieve an average LTDY of 14.78 litres per day of life- The bottom 10% achieve just 5.8 litres/day
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- The top 10% of NMR herds measured on calving interval achieve a herd average of 378 days
- The bottom 10% have an average of over 480 days
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HORIZON SCANNINGHORIZON SCANNING
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Market demands from UK MRO’s• More integration• More bespoke• Better decision support and action lists• Ability to demonstrate return on investment• Aid compliance with processor requirements
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NMR approach• Bundling to achieve integration• Bespoke offerings – farm specific settings for action
lists• Third party links
– On line reporting• Producers registered• Third parties registered
• Benchmarking• Unlock more from the milk sample
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Bundling
• Linkage of different testing and data recording services – Bulk milk and individual cow milk– Blood/tissue testing services– Bespoke data recording
• Individual farm ‘decision tree’
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Sample type Frequency Reliability Outcome Value Example
Bulk milk Quarterly or every sample
Alert + Urea
Bulk milk Quarterly or every sample
Action ++ Inf disease
Indiv cow (DHI)
Monthly Alert + Energy balance
Individual cow (DHI)
Monthly Action +++ PD, SCC, Johne’s
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GB herds tested through NML (bulk milk samples)
NMR Herds CompetitorMRO’s
Nonrecording
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BUNDLING
Selective Dry Cow therapy report
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Going beyond traditional ‘Action Lists’
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- Fertility- Lameness- Mastitis - Disease
- Actual .v. predicted milk yield- Calving ease- Antibiotic use
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The cull list…….
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Benchmarking
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Securing and maintainingengagement through benchmarking
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Getting more from the milk sample –interrogating spectral data
• Looking to identify cows suffering from negative energy balance in early lactation to allow action to be taken before energy status has an effect on future fertility and production
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Negative Energy Balance (NEB)
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How do we do it?
MIR spectra from
individual cow milk samples
Prediction equations
Energy Balance
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BCS and Energy Balance
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Individual Cow Results…
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Conclusions• Growing demand for a new generation of innovative
milk recording services..……• MRO’s need to challenge themselves – and challenge
their suppliers……..• Change is a constant – and those that respond most
effectively to change will succeed
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Thank you……
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