SD FNC Milking Mastitis Management May 2025

Mastitis and milk quality affect the bottom line of all dairy farms. Dairy Australia estimates that every case of clinical mastitis costs at least $270 in treatment costs and lost milk.

Subtropical Dairy invites you to join us for an on-farm workshop to discuss some practical management considerations for preventing, detecting and treating mastitis in your dairy herd.

Milking and Mastitis Management (previously, Cups On Cups Off) is atraining course designed to help dairy farmers achieve best practice in milk harvesting, with the emphasis on the detection, treatment and prevention of clinical mastitis.

Carl Hockey will facilitate the FNC on-farm session.

• The course includes an online session (if you have not attended the online session, a recording is available prior to the on-farm session) followed by an on-farm workshop:Food quality and safety
• Stockmanship
• Workplace, health and safety
• Milk harvesting
• Plant cleaning
• Mastitis detection, treatment and prevention

The course is suitable for anyone on a dairy farm who milks cows - from farm owners, managers and share farmers to family members and farm employees. This training has already helped many dairy farmers to reduce the spread of mastitis and lower the risk of clinical cases of mastitis in their herds.