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For the ABS team, working in the Australian dairy industry has exposed them to new breeding techniques and a different way of working. Natasha explained she worked alone on her AI route in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, visiting the same farmers each day. It\u2019s a similar story for others. \u201cHere, what\u2019s different is the teamwork aspect, working with four-to-five people, we don\u2019t have that at home,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt does keep your energy up, you don\u2019t get burnt-out as fast, \u201cLynnsey added. \u201cYou avoid burnout because you are feeding off each other.\u201d For Tyler, he\u2019s developed techniques to breed cows faster. \u201cI used to spend more time adjusting the tail of the cow before I bred her, now I don\u2019t lift the tail anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to go faster to keep up, especially the timed AI on the rotaries. We have to figure out how to go faster and still get a good result.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Riley came from an internship position with ABS in western Ohio in the US and said her time in Australia has improved her physical stamina and time management skills. \u201cThere\u2019s a larger dairy farm at home we service and say you have 200 cows to do, broken up between four people,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter 30 cows my arm would be dead tired. Now, I can go to 50-plus cows. I have a bit more energy and have built up strength. There\u2019s also time management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, we have got to go from one farm to another and get there at a relatively fair time to the farmer, so you have to really manage your time. So, some days I know I can\u2019t talk to this farmer because I\u2019m running 10 minutes behind, but if he wants to chat I can work that into my schedule the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the skills the team have learnt in Australia aren\u2019t part of their job back in the US or Canada, such as freeze branding and working with reproduction tools such as CDIRs and Cue-Mates. But all agreed the extra experience would be valuable when they returned to their work at home. \u201cIt\u2019s a different way of doing the same job,\u201d Lynnsey explained. \u201cYou learn different skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ABS team will remain in Australia, working with Nu-Genes until December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Breeding dairy cows faster, inserting reproduction aids for heat synchronisation and genomic testing. These are just some of the skills a group of four bovine reproduction technicians from the United States of America and Canada are learning as part of an industry exchange. This team works for ABS at home but have spent the past…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9942,"featured_media":4391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abs-australia-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n