Dairy
Maximising Milk from Forage
Ensuring that your dairy rations maximise the feed value available in your silage and other conserved forages can make significant savings in purchased feed costs. On grazing farms, the quality…
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Farm Management Handbook 2024/25
The 45th edition of the Farm Management Handbook is an essential tool for any progressive farm business, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for farmers, crofters, rural professionals,…
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Vitamin E for Dry Cows – Are You Feeding Enough?
Vitamin E supplementation is absolutely critical for dry dairy cows for immunological function. It also greatly impacts on calf health as well. As vitamin E does not cross the placenta…
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Dairy Benchmarking Workshop Part 2 – Stranraer
The second workshop in the series will look at some of the information that attendees have gathered as part of their benchmarking work. Those who didn’t attend the first part…
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Whole Farm Plans for Dairy Farms
The whole farm plan is designed to support farmers in finding ways to identify opportunities to improve sustainability and profitability in their business. The introduction of the whole farm plan…
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Scotland’s Dairy Sector’s Progress Towards Net Zero 2045
The Scottish Government has released the latest figures for Scottish agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and nitrogen use for the accounting year 2022-23. The results are broadly positive with the…
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MMN July 2024 – Milk Market Update
UK Wholesale Dairy Commodity Market Fonterra’s latest on-line GDT auction (2nd July) resulted in a massive 6.9% drop in the weighted average price across all products, reaching US $3,782/t. This…
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MMN July 2024 – Why Won’t a Calf Suckle?
There are many reasons why some calves struggle to suckle from a teat. One of the main causes is an acidotic calf at birth and this condition is most likely…
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MMN July 2024 – Top Performing Dairy Farmers
In 2017, AHDB commissioned The Andersons Centre to identify the characteristics which define the top performing dairy farms in the UK. The report has been updated in 2024 using both…
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MMN July 2024 – Contagious Mastitis: Tackling High SCC’s
Being above the standard litre target for somatic cell count (SCC) can have a significant impact on your milk cheque. High levels of contagious mastitis within a herd often result…
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