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Diversification on a Shoestring
As of 2022, 58% of Scottish farms have diversified beyond traditional agriculture. Notably, diversified farms earned an average of £24,200 more than their non-diversified counterparts. Diversification not only boosts income…
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MMN March 2025 – How Much is Enough When it Comes to Milk Replacer?
Your calf rearing policy should, from birth, ensure that you are giving heifer replacements the best opportunity to express their genetic potential as a productive animal when they enter the…
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MMN March 2025 – Milk Market Update
Dairy Commodity Markets Fonterra’s latest on-line GDT auction (4th March) resulted in a 0.5% decrease in the weighted average price across all products, reaching US $4,209/t. This follows a 0.6%…
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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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