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Finishing Cattle at Grass and when to Supplement
This is part of the FAS Beef Technical Toolkit series, designed to give farmers practical timely advice to aid decision-making throughout the year. If cattle are coming out of the…
Read More >Lamb Performance – Post Weaning
As summer progresses thoughts turn to weaning of lambs. This factsheet highlights management of lambs post weaning to maximise growth rates, while ensuring forage is available for the next lamb…
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Nutrition Planning for Late Summer and Autumn Calvers
This is part of the FAS Beef Technical Toolkit series, designed to give farmers practical timely advice to aid decision-making throughout the year. The principles of pre-calving nutrition still apply…
Read More >Herd Fertility – is your bull working?
This is part of the FAS Beef Technical Toolkit series, designed to give farmers practical timely advice to aid decision-making throughout the year. Fertility is a key driver of suckler…
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Agribusiness News July 2023 – Beehives on Farmland
Honeybees & farming: having hives on your land Most beekeepers don’t have land of their own and they keep their bees on landowners or farmer’s land. The traditional agreement is…
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Agribusiness News July 2023 – Climate Progress Report Updates
Climate progress update published At the end of May, the Scottish Government published the 2023 progress report on the Climate Change Plan, detailing progress made across all industries to policy…
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Agribusiness News July 2023 – Soil Compaction and Grassland Yield Loss
Understanding the effects Understanding the effects of soil compaction should be part of a regular assessment of overall soil health for grassland farmers as well as arable farmers. The trampling…
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Agribusiness News July 2023 – Milk
Have milk prices bottomed out? Milk volumes are falling rapidly, there are fewer and smaller price cuts for July compared to recent months and commodity markets appear to be fairly…
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Agribusiness News July 2023 – Potato Update
Trends in potato production The levy body AHDB Potatoes no longer exists to collect planting returns and market information. This makes concrete information on the potato crop in GB hard…
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Agribusiness News July 2023 – Sheep
Cull ewes It has been reported that the number of adult sheep slaughtered in the UK between Jan-April 2023 is 5% higher than 2022. This may be due to the…
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