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Everest Innovation AwardedEVEREST INSTRUMENTS PVT. Ltd. is a leading dairy and milk technologyinnovator offering total system solutions. Its superior technology basedMilk Collection Systems help businesses in the dairy industry and milkcooperatives to enhance their produce and achieve efficient operations.The Company has been awarded Best MSME for Manufacturingof Automatic Milk Collection System in the State of Gujarat, India –for the year 2011 in Vibrant Gujarat 2013 from the Industries Minister ofGujarat, Shri Saurabh Patel.Some of Everest’s popular products include DPU based MilkAutomation Collection System, Milk Analyzers, Milk Collectors, MilkTesters, Food Testers, Alcohol & Brewery Testers, Hygiene Testers and Weighing Scales.INTERNATIONALnewsCows that Produce 100 kg Milk a Day!GIVEN THE CURRENT economic scenario, biggerherds and more intensive farm managementcharacterize the dairy industry in South Africatoday. Challenges like breeding cows that wouldsurvive in the warm South African climate andhave a very high production are being met throughthe right breeding selection and careful herdmanagement.Johannes Loubser of Welgegund, some40km north of Cape Town, farms with a Holsteinherd that produces milk for his own dairy productbrand, Fair Cape, and local retailer, Woolworths.In his farm 1,500 cows are housed in four hugecow sheds with free-loaf areas enabling the farmto be classified as a free-range dairy. Part of themanagement strategy to encourage cows toperform optimally includes beds for comfort and fans and water sprayers to cool them down. Cows are milked threetimes a day. An electronic management system keeps tabs on which cows are in the high producer group (more than50 litres a day) or middle (40-50 litre) or lower lactation group (30-40 litre). Cows producing less than 30 litres a dayare subsequently dried off.According to Johannes “Dutch genetics have proven itself in this herd to produce strong cows with capacityand longevity. They give more milk and have the capacity for high production.” Late last year one such “almostperfect” cow, the Delta Olympic daughter, 6322, produced 107,8 litres of milk at her peak in her fourth lactation.The feed ration is designed to help the herd achieve their genetic potential. Cows are fed a total mixed ration(TMR) ad lib and with the help of the electronic cow identification and management system, each cow receives anindividual concentrate feed ration in the milking parlour. The concentrate ration varies according to the productionlevel, stage of lactation and needs of the cow, but the basic ingredients include soya concentrate, high proteinconcentrate, maize meal and fish meal.This is definitely one story where Indian dairy farmers and breeders can draw upon, given the almost similarclimatic conditions that exist in our country!MAY 2013INDIAN DAIRYMAN33