Udder satisfaction tracked to sound of music

DAIRY scientists and agri advisers are forever producing systems to help farmers get more milk from their dairy herds.

All of those programmes have a well-proven scientific base, but now two students from Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh in Bishopstown, Cork, have taken a different approach to improving milk production.

Encouraged by teacher Martina Downes, James Delaney and Michael McCarthy have been working on a project to try and establish if cows exposed to different types of music on a regular basis produce more milk than those who are not.