Strike turns Indian farmer to an overnight dairy feed businessman

The seemingly sleepy village at the end of the road is not so sleepy after all. Guagadia village produced an overnight entrepreneur, one who had never imagined he would ever do anything beyond feeding his dairy cattle, milking them and selling the milk to the local dairy Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED). When … Continue reading Strike turns Indian farmer to an overnight dairy feed businessman

Barbara Wieland joins ILRI’s Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity team

Barbara Wieland joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on 5 January 2015 as team leader herd health in the Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity (ASSP) program. Wieland is a Swiss national who graduated as a veterinarian at the University of Bern.   She did her post-doctoral fellowship  in  the UK in a joint position … Continue reading Barbara Wieland joins ILRI’s Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity team