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Editor Mike Donovan is short-listed for MDC Dairy Innovation Award

It far easier to improve your own farm once you see how someone has made a electric backing gate, a silage nudger, a dairy heat exchanger, an improved plate cooling system, or any number of other projects. It gives you the encouragement to improve your own business and benefit from the rewards.

Make adjustable cluster props by chopping up an old kick bar.	Lay new concrete with grooves using a board with vee belt groovers

Here are two simple ideas which you may not have thought about yourself. Yet the problem of clusters slipping down cow's teats is one which will never go away! And laying concrete with the grooves already in place saves in three ways:
1. You can make the surface smoother and so less damaging to cows feet when the concrete is new.
2. There's no expense in getting the grooving people in
3. You actually save a bit of material as well.