December 2021
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to investigate if providing high-quality (town supply) water compared with unfiltered bore water, which is high in iron and manganese, would increase water intake and milk production in dairy cattle. All text in this article is licensed for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Does the quality of drinking water (bore vs town supply) influence water intake, milk production and animal preferences in dairy cattle? Edward Hardie (LIC FarmWise), Karin Schultz (AgResearch), Shen He and Frances Huddart. RPF Report, July 2021. https://ourlandandwater.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Report_OLW-RPF2-2020-21-Increase-milk-production-with-improved-water-quality-July-2021.pdf