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Building Resilience into your Business
Key resources that can equip you with the tools and knowledge to build resilience into your business.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Forage and Feed Budgeting
Forage and feed budgeting is a simple assessment of the feed and forage availability on the farm against the livestock demand. This can be a useful tool, particularly before going…
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Basis Period Reform Explained
In the 2021 Autumn Budget, the Government announced a reform of the way that trading profits are allocated to tax years for income tax purposes. These changes are known as…
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MMN May 2024 – Funding for Business Energy Efficiency
Electricity use accounted for around 3% of the average dairy farmers costs in Scotland in the 2022/23 Scottish Farm Business Survey (and was 4.32% of fixed costs). As such, improving…
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MMN May 2024 – Risk Factors for Twinning
As dairy cattle have been selected over the years for higher milk production, a higher rate of twinning has also been observed. In fact, the rate has tripled over the…
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MMN May 2024 – Reducing White Line Disease in Dairy Cows
White line disease (WLD) is the second most common cause of claw disease in dairy cows, with an average of 5.5 cases per 100 cows per year (Barker et al.,…
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MMN May 2024 – Straights Update
UK Cereals Market Update and Global Impacts Spring UK Cereal Supply and Demand Estimates (AHDB) show well above average end of season stocks for wheat and barley. Despite 2023’s production…
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MMN May 2024 – Colostrum Beyond Antibodies: What is New?
Project: Identifying critical control points for colostrum contamination and Mycoplasma bovis prevalence in first milking colostrum from Scottish dairy herds. When colostrum quality is discussed, it is tempting to think…
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MMN May 2024 – Milk Market Update
UK Wholesale Dairy Commodity Market Fonterra’s latest on-line GDT auction (7th May) resulted in a 1.8% increase in the weighted average price across all products, reaching US $3,708/t. This was…
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The Tax Treatment of Land: A Spring Update
Both UK and national devolved administrations are undertaking the biggest agricultural policy change for a generation to respond to our climate and biodiversity crises, whilst retaining sustainable food production. This…
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