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MMN March 2025 – Turning Out Heifers, Fed not Forgotten
Highly nutritious spring grass can be an effective tool for promoting growth in youngstock and can support growth rates of up to 1kg/day. Turning heifers out to grass can reduce…
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MMN March 2025 – Fodder Beet in Milking Rations
Fodder beet has surged in popularity for outwintering livestock, providing one of the highest yielding energy crops (65-90T of bulb and leaf yield/ha). While the crop may only be around…
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MMN March 2025 – Husbandry of Dairy Calves
When rearing calves there is a lot to think about from to the day of birth right through to getting that calf to enter the milking herd. Husbandry is important…
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MMN March 2025 – The Multiple Roles of Methionine
Methionine is an essential amino acid for dairy cows and is the first limiting amino acid for milk production, followed by lysine. Typically miking rations are deficient in methionine, with…
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Use of Wood Ash at Hoddom and Kinmount Estate
At Hoddom and Kinmount Estate, the farm manager James Marshall has recently been applying wood fly ash to some of the land with an aim of reducing the use of…
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MMN March 2025 – Cereals Update
UK Cereals Market Update and Global Impacts Wheat prices remain lacklustre to say the least. Over the last three weeks May ’25 feed wheat futures values (Figure 1) have fallen…
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Understanding GAEC 7 and Cross-Compliance On-Farm
The development of and investment in new farm infrastructure and land improvement is recognised as an important part of pushing the agricultural sector forward and making it resilient and ready…
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Agribusiness News March 2025 – Management Matters: Wills & Power of Attorney
Autumn Budget 2024 – fundamental change to Inheritance Tax The Budget brought significant changes to Inheritance Tax, particularly concerning Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR). These changes…
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Agribusiness News March 2025 – Inputs: Fertiliser Use Trends in Scotland
Fertiliser Use trends in Scotland Is crop performance being compromised? Thankfully fertiliser prices have returned to a more tolerable level than that of recent years; however, this extreme price spike…
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Agribusiness News March 2025 – Sector Focus: New Zealand Still Living Off the Animal’s Back
Farmers upbeat New Zealand farmers are feeling upbeat. For despite a tough spring in the south of the country; dairy, beef and sheep prices are nicely up. Good news for…
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