Automation is Being on Trend

The world’s population is growing from year to year along with food requirements. Thus dairy industry is constantly developing. Of course, only effective milk production brings profit . If to analyze major stages of efficiency evolution, mechanization may be said to be the first among them. Thereat machines replaced labor-intensive processes at work. Automation was the next step: smart devices began to perform certain operations instead of humans. In the modern period the automated systems do not simply perform programmed functions, but suggest a person what and when to do.

Valerii Samofal: “We aim to create fair and clear rules of the game at the Ukrainian veterinary market”

Interviewed by Olga Zarytska

Ask the first comer, whether he believes in fair and honest business. In response, you will likely hear "No!" It’s not because there are no reliable companies in the market, but there many of those, who wish to make money fast, easy and by any means. Newcomers have the hardest time in this situation, no matter what noble the intentions they have. The only thing that can help them is convincing facts and satisfied customers. The director of a start-up company DK -Vet Valerii Samofal is telling about formation, growth and success of the company.

The Price Paid

Stepan Lyhosherst, Veterinary, CC UDA consultant on selection and young stock breeding

«Cattle breeding is a relatively simple endeavour. The only difficult part is to keep it simple».

Tom Lasater

The main objectives in breeding dairy cattle are to increase milk production, breed better functional characteristics that will allow the cow to produce more milk over a longer period of time. Naturally, the more characteristics for which one selects, the less progress is made. Therefore, in line with the above quotation, most farmers restrict selection criteria to the following:

Precision livestock farming in Ukraine

Alena Antonova

Managing a farm, as well as any other production, is a difficult task. It requires constant careful recording and planning that take much time. To optimize management processes on dairy farms many modern tools have been developed, including automated software. They are integrated with the dairy equipment and are designed to make the work of the farmer as simple and efficient as possible.

Personnel for Dairy Farming

Tetiana Antonenko, International Dairy Magazine

That’s not a secret, that those know about the problem of training dairy farm employees the best, who communicate constantly with teachers and students of our agricultural Universities. If you read some of our interviews, taken for the magazine “Milk and Farm”, you will get some idea about how milk industry is provided with skilled experts.

Emiel van Haaren. Building a Goat Farm — Successful Business

Year after year more people consume products made with goat milk. Traditionally they are used for old, ill people, babies and children with dairy allergy. Moreover goat milk is more nutritious than cow milk. We asked Emiel van Haaren, a worldwide famous expert in goat and sheep breeding, how to make healthy products accessible to the Ukrainians and what rules we should follow if we want to start this business. He has accomplished many successful projects in different countries. The greatest was realized in Saudi Arabia — a farm with 15 000 goats.

Not everything is sold

Interviewed by Nataliya Pahaychuk

Stepan Ivakhiv is a co-founder of financial-industrial group «Continuum», which is a leading player in the dairy market of Ukraine. In the «Continuum» Stepan was responsible for the milk line and now walked away from business management, as became the Member of Parliament of Ukraine. In the Parliament Ivakhiv is a Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations. His experience in the dairy business he uses in lawmaking.

«Gilded youth»

Mykailo Bilokin, chief veterinarian of ADP

At the Ukrainian farms we can quite often seen underfilled cattle production capacity and small technological groups. Due to the lack of quality repair stock, low production cows are kept in herds for too long.

How cow Laska entered the market

Last year the farm «named after Shevchenko» in Uhryniv village Horokhiv district, Volyn region, opened their own processing facility and locked milk production cycle from farm to fork. Now the products under the brand name «UhrynivMoloko» gradually take their place in the local market.

Feeding Management

Sergiy Fyl, head of breeding Consulting Center AMP

Old is the truth that milk is at the cows’ tongue. Of course, to have high productive cow, it must be timely and high-quality fed. However, as it turned out, just to put feed on the fodder place is not enough — you need to establish a mechanism of feeding. It is so sensitive that even a small oversight can crash the entire system.