Nutrition
A Guide to Feed Budgeting
Forward planning forage supplies helps understand whether you will have enough conserved forage to meet the livestock demand – this is becoming more critical as weather is fluctuating more from the seasonal norms.
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Safety during Silage and Hay Making Season
With silage and hay making well underway, forage harvesters and tractors are at work up and down the country it’s important that farmers are vigilant with regards to safety. With…
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Feeding to Yield – Making Sure it is Accurate
In parlour feeding of concentrates has long been a traditional way to feed supplementary concentrates to dairy cows, with potential added benefits of encouraging cow flow into the parlour, promoting…
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Nutrient Strategy – Compost
For further detail on soil organic matter & composting please visit the Farm Advisory Service’s Kerchesters Farm webpage. In this episode George Gauley is joined by Jim McFarlane from Edrington…
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Technology for Improved Animal Welfare – The South West Dairy Development Centre
In this 2-part mini-series of podcasts based on Animal Health & Welfare we are speaking with the head of dairy, Duncan Forbes from the Agri-Epi Centre. In podcast 1, Duncan…
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Livestock Grazing Beet: Feat. Dr Jim Gibbs
The third and final podcast in our fodder beet for livestock series. This podcast focuses on the health of livestock grazing beet and we are again joined by Dr Jim…
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Managing Straw Supplies for the Winter
Malcolm Macdonald speaks to SAC beef consultants Robert Ramsay and Sarah Balfour about managing straw supplies this winter. With straw availability varying across the country this podcast discusses how farmers…
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