Dairy Cattle

Planning Feed Supplies for the Winter

Malcolm MacDonald spoke to nutritionists Karen Stewart and Mary Young along with beef specialist Robert Ramsay about planning feed supplies for the winter. Karen, Mary and Robert give us a…

Digital Dermatitis – Are you detecting it early enough?

A recent on-line meeting of the Stranraer Sustainable Dairy Group on lameness prevention welcomed vet Dr Sara Pederson to speak about digital dermatitis (DD): risk factors, control and treatment of…

Derelict to Productive

Patrick Laurie, Galloway based author of ‘Native’ speaks to Janette Sutherland in Skye about his book. They discuss his starting a farming business and Riggit Galloway herd. They discuss native…

Podcast: The Thrill of The Hill – Virtual Fencing

In the fourth Thrill of The Hill episode, Alex is joined by SAC Consultant Malcolm Macdonald to discuss virtual fencing technology and it’s potential applications in Scotland and across the…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Weaning Lambs at 90day

These lambs have grown at 325g/day from birth, an exceptional growth rate for twins. Jamie has shown us the leader-follower system in previous videos and discusses how he is…

Rotational Grazing Vlog: Cattle doing well after a wet august at Oakwood Mill

Although grass is doing well and cattle are thriving (1.35 kg/day liveweight gain), rainfall is starting to increase poaching risk. Giles now looks forward to…

Keeping Pace with Green Policy

For over ten years, Scottish agriculture has come to recognise the importance of sustainable management of the farmed environment, mainly in response to the growing climate crisis and biodiversity decline.…

The Future of Carbon Auditing in Agriculture – A Business-led Approach

Following on from my last article in the January 2020 edition of Milk Manager News around why it is important to carry out a carbon audit, I started to think…