Today it was my pleasure hosting students from Agha Khan education centre, Kisumu at Willens farm in Eldoret. Their innocent questions about cows, milk and machinery was so inspiring. I hope more schools can take students on farm tours so that they c ... (Read More)

Last week, @NLinKenya and Meru central dairy coop organised a successful one week training at the new Dairy training farm: Siriku PDTC. When extension staff are empowered with skills, farmers get better quality advice which translates to more milk a ... (Read More)

Last week, our experts travelled to Holland to learn more about dairy farming. Here is Henk Bles and Wytze Heida of Bless Dairies stressing the importance of passion, discipline and logical thinking in dairy farming during the tour.

Disinfection of teats is important in preventing diseases like mastitis which is a major cosst to farmers. Today, we demonstrated to farmers how they can use a tit dip after milking. Our topic of the day was milk hygiene and milking techniques.

Today we had a successful general on dairy husbandry for Nyaki Dairy Society.

Kinoro farmers exchange visit at Mbuyu farm

Today we had a great time sharing knowledge with our farmers. Knowledge exchange can happen everywhere, under a tree, in the farm or in a classroom.

It is said that 1kg of silage can cost as low as Ksh 5 when made of the farm. Thats why in our trainings, we focus on encouraging farmers to plant own maize and make silage. today we have had a successfull silage preparation demos in meru.

Todays dairy farmers exchange visit at RK Farm in Nyaki. Focus area include fodder management and how much farmers can save when they invest in protein fodder.

It all starts by having its knowledge. Dairy farming is a real business. With knowledge farmers are safe and willing to invest.

In todays training with Kinoro Lead farmers, our focus is on fodder planning. We covered topics ranging from planting, management and silage making

Our training on milk quality is done early at milk collection centers. Here my colleague Mary is demonstrating practically to farmers dangers of using plastic containers to transport milk which include difficulties in cleaning leading to accumulation ... (Read More)

I took farmers from Kinoro Dairy cooperative for an exchange visit to Mbuyu farm.

Nowadays it has become our norm to invite input suppliers and service providers to come and join us in training farmers.

Because seeing is believing, I conduct 70% of my training where the cows are. As expected, farmers concentrate better and adopt more.