Dairy UP

Dairy UP is a major research and development program to help NSW farmers unlock the potential of the Read more: https://www.dairyup.com.au/

Dairy UP involves 10 projects which address the three keys to unlocking dairy potential: Improving productivity and profitability, de-risking farming systems and developing new markets.

16/04/2026

The Dairy UP team has recently published the following journal article which reports on findings from both P1a Remote Pasture Monitoring and P6c Digital Feeding.

Azubuike BN, Chlingaryan A, Correa-Luna M, Clark CEF, Garcia SC. Data Augmentation and Interpolation Improves Machine Learning-Based Pasture Biomass Estimation from Sentinel-2 Imagery. Remote Sensing. 2025; 17(23):3787.

See all Dairy UP publications here: https://dairyup.com.au/publications/

14/04/2026

Dairy UP student Mulisa Dida recently submitted his PhD thesis- Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Soil Carbon Stocks in Dairy Farming Systems

06/04/2026

Dairy UP student Rezaul Rakib recently submitted his PhD theseis - Investigations of Heat Shock Protein 70 for Non-Invasive Detection of Heat Stress in Dairy Cows.

01/04/2026

PhD Awarded

David Sheedy’s PhD thesis is now available online. Contributing to Dairy UP’s P2a (Dairy cow longevity) project, David identified blood metabolomic profiles that indicate increased risk of culling before the fourth lactation. We look forward to David's graduation soon!

Read more: https://bit.ly/4lyMLoq

29/03/2026

Congratulations to Dairy UP researcher Dr Alice Shirley who recently graduated with her PhD. Alice’s research formed part of Dairy UP’s P6a project: Resilient cattle (heat tolerance).

Alice analysed data from pasture-based cows fitted with rumen sensors (which monitored body temperature and water intake), to determine that drinking behaviour can be used as a reliable indicator of heat stress. Her findings create new opportunities for adding data and improve the reliability of DataGene’s Heat Tolerance Australian Breeding Values which currently based solely on genomic information.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4sd5iJh

24/03/2026

Hunt for the cause of Kikuyu toxicity

Researchers working on Dairy UP’s P1b Kikuyu toxicity project are hot on the hunt for the elusive cause of Kikuyu toxicity. In recent months they have been busy analysing samples collected from farms. They’ve identified a number of potential culprits which they are further investigating.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4lw1xfr

16/03/2026

Breeding for improved heat tolerance

Dairy UP’s P6a Resilient Cattle (heat tolerance) project has generated new knowledge on how dairy cattle respond to heat. These findings are expected to contribute to future refinement of the Heat Tolerance Australian Breeding Value developed by DairyBio and published by DataGene.

In recent months, the Dairy UP team has been busy analysing their results. They used innovative data sources (from rumen sensors) and enhanced machine learning techniques to develop new phenotypic data that can be potentially applied to the Heat Tolerance ABV. Until now, the Heat Tolerance ABV has been based solely on genomic information, which has limited its reliability.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4lE5WNK

02/02/2026

Carbon emissions and dairy systems

PhD student, Mulisa Dida, has been working with the Dairy UP team on P1d Carbon on NSW dairy farms. He recently had a paper published in the Journal of Dairy Science: Greenhouse gas emissions of confinement and pasture-based dairy farms: Implications for mitigation.

The study found that enteric methane (from cows burping) was the biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in both intensively-housed and pasture-based dairy systems. Manure was the second biggest source in intensively housed systems. In pasture-based systems, the second biggest source was pre-farm embedded emissions (purchased grains, concentrates, forages, and fertilisers. Milk emission intensity (greenhouse gas emissions per unit of milk produced) was similar between the two systems.

Read the article: https://bit.ly/48MPbv2

27/01/2026

Congratulations Ian, David and Helen

A journal article authored by several members of the Dairy UP team was recently placed on the Journal of Dairy Science’s list of 100 most cited papers since 2022. Congratulations to Ian Lean, David Sheedy, Helen Golder and their co-authors for the success of their paper: Associations of parity with health disorders and blood metabolite concentrations in Holstein cows in different production systems which was published in 2023.

Read the article: https://bit.ly/48XRb2b

25/01/2026

Calf pathways roadmap

In follow up work to Dairy UP’s P10 project (Sustainable pathways for surplus calves), Dairy Australia has launched CalfWays, a roadmap for sustainable non-replacement dairy calf management to 2035. It aims to facilitate industry collaboration to provide more choice in the supply chain and ensure a viable option for every calf.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4pP9DBm

21/01/2026

Centenary Awards

Congratulations to Dairy UP Project Leader, Dr Ian Lean who recently received the prestigious Centenary Award for his outstanding contribution to Professional Practice. The awards are presented by the Veterinary Practitioners Board, NSW in recognition of veterinary excellence across the many fields that protect the health of animals, people and the environment.

Read more: https://bit.ly/48KwN5Z

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Centre For Carbon, Water And Food (CCWF), 380 Werombi Road
Brownlow Hill, NSW
2570

Telephone

+61246519871

Website

https://dairyup.com.au/

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