Other Resources
A range of resources and
courses are available to help farmers and their advisers solve cell count and
milk quality issues - and then keep the count down. They are outlined on this
page.
For more information or to
borrow presentation kits and posters please contact your nearest regional
program manager.
Resources
Farm Guidelines
The Farm
Guidelines are published in a 120 page manual that help farmers get and keep
premium payments. They include:
what to do; why; how; how to check.
The Technotes
are published in a loose leaf binder. They provide technical support to, and
scientific justification for the Farm Guidelines.
Farm Presentation Kit
This seminar
series introduces farmers and their milking staff to the Countdown Downunder
program and offers practical information and tips for mastitis control. I t is
designed for use by any farm advisers who have participated in the “Countdown
Downunder Adviser Seminars”
The
Presentation Kit comprises 7 farm seminar modules suitable for use together or
separately and totalling about six hours of seminar time.
Participants
are encouraged to go on to the Farmer Short Courses if they
wish to develop a deeper understanding of mastitis control.
The
Presentation Kit is available in several forms:
- The Farm Master Kit comprises
a full set of 100 overheads and notes pages plus a PowerPoint version on
CD-ROM;
- The Farm Starter Kit comprises
a full set of notes, a sample set of 20 overheads (usually module 2 –
Biology of mastitis and the teat end) and the PowerPoint version on CD-ROM;
- The Farm CD Kit comprises a
full set of notes, a single overhead and the PowerPoint version on CD-ROM;
- The Farm Flip-chart Kit is
designed for smaller presentations, eg at smoko in the dairy shed, the
flip-charts are A3 copies of the overheads and notes presented in a
freestanding easel binder. The flip-charts are supplied as a full set in an
A3 binder, with a separate easel binder for presentation of individual
modules.
You can borrow these kits from
your Countdown Downunder Regional Project Manager.
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