Water and Dairy Cattle.

Water constitutes 60 to 70 percent of a livestock animal’s body. Water is necessary for maintaining body fluids and proper ion balance; digesting, absorbing, and metabolizing nutrients; eliminating waste material and excess heat from the body; providing a
fluid environment for the fetus; and transporting nutrients to and from body tissues. Dairy cattle get the water
they need by drinking and consuming feed that
contains water, as well as...

It has been a pleasure to work with enthusiastic forward thinking dairy farmers around Trichy and Madurai. These people are focusing on business issues on which they can impact. They realise there is no point in getting consumed with issues outside of their control. What strengths do they have in common?

•They are not consumed by ‘work.’ They have realised that ‘hard work’ does not make a successful business (in many cases the contrary is true.) They have built in free time and...