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MMN January 2025 – Should You be Using Genomic Testing?
Genomics uses a young animal’s DNA to estimate their genetic potential and aims to provide dairy farmers with the information and the confidence to make informed breeding decisions with their…
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MMN January 2025 – The Importance of Sugar in a Dairy Ration
The sugar content of dairy diets is often not given much consideration, with more focus usually given to energy, protein and starch levels. While the sugar content of the ration…
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MMN January 2025 – Cereals Update
UK Cereals Market Update and Global Impacts Globally, and since the high prices of 2022, wheat markets have followed a bearish trend for more than two years. However, markets are…
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MMN January 2025 – Milk Market Update
Dairy Commodity Markets Fonterra’s latest on-line GDT auction (7th January) resulted in a 1.4% decrease in the weighted average price across all products, reaching US $4,029/t. This follows a 2.8%…
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Mineral Requirements in Out-Wintered and Grazed Cattle
In a housed system, dietary intake of minerals can be regulated as the diet is formulated to provide the same quantity of minerals each day, depending on the stage of…
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Green Bedding for the Dairy Herd
With the rising costs of sawdust and straw, it is worth considering alternative sources of bedding, one of which is recycled manure solids (RMS), also known as green bedding. Green…
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Agribusiness News January 2025 – Global Trends
The UK and European agricultural economies have been on a slow journey back to more stable conditions in the wake of the disruptive effects of Covid-19 and the war in…
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Agribusiness News January 2025 – Financial Matters
A year of political change 2024 has brought substantial shifts in the UK political and economic landscape. Following the UK General Election, the Labour Party secured a clear majority. This…
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Agribusiness News January 2025 – Milk
2024 review: a year of two halves Rising prices for butter, cream, SMP and cheddar came on the back of low milk volumes both here and in the EU in…
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Agribusiness News January 2025 – 2024 Environmental Roundup
Key policy developments November saw the passing of the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill by the Scottish Parliament, outlining a move from annual emissions targets to 5-year budgets,…
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