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Cereal Varieties 2023 Summer Update
Cereal Varieties 2023 Summer Update This download features the full list of winter wheat, spring barley and winter barley. Click the link to download. Click Here for the Full List
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Arable Scotland Event 2023: Take Home Messages
This article is produced as a part of the FAS Crops & Soils Bulletin. Subscribe now to receive the full report in your inbox monthly. Over 300 people braved rather…
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MMN July 2023 – How Resilient is your Dairy Farm?
As milk prices continue to drop, now is the time to consider whether your dairy business is resilient to survive the financial challenges that unexpected changes within the industry can…
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MMN July 2023 – Small Calf Syndrome (SCS)
SRUC Veterinary Services at St Boswells have recently been investigating the occurrence of unusually small calves from five spring calving suckler herds in the area. The affected herds have either…
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MMN July 2023 – Sharing Best Practice from an Organic Dairy
Since fertiliser prices rocketed in 2021, the Stranraer Sustainable Group of dairy farmers (part of the FAS Connect Programme) has been assessing their use of inorganic fertilisers to reduce their…
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MMN July 2023 – Keeping Mastitis Under Control in Summer
Mastitis is one of the biggest causes of economic loss in the dairy herd and can be even more prevalent during the grazing season. Exposure to new bacterial pathogens and…
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MMN July 2023 – Milk Feeding Management of Dairy Heifer Calves
Maximising growth rates of dairy heifer calves during the milk feeding phase is important to get calves off to a good start in life. While they tend to be fed…
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Milk Manager News July 2023 – Straights Update
Global and Domestic Cereals Outlook Global wheat production, stocks and trade (Figure 1) are all forecast to fall in 2023/24 from their 2022/23 record high levels. Nevertheless, with significant carryover…
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Milk Manager News July 2023 – Milk Market Update
Milk Market Update UK Wholesale Dairy Commodity Market Fonterra’s latest on-line GDT auction (4th of July) resulted in a 3.3% decrease in the weighted average price across all products, reaching…
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This article was updated on 9th July 2026. This is part of the FAS Beef Technical Toolkit series, designed to give farmers practical timely advice to aid decision-making throughout the…
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