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Podcast: Forward Thinking Farmers: John Sinclair
John Sinclair owns and runs Craigies Farm Shop just outside Edinburgh. It’s a family run business with pick your own fruit and veg as well as the shop and café. …
Read More >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…
Read More >Bolusing Versus Drenching For Ewes
Boluses or drenches both have their merits for supplementing ewes with trace elements at key times of the production cycle (pre-tupping and pre-lambing), but is one better than the other? Both are labour intensive but ensure that every animal has received its dose, as opposed to relying on ewes getting their correct allocation from buckets, feed blocks or free access minerals.
Read More >Autumn Lamb Health
The top four most commonly diagnosed conditions in lambs during autumn are systemic pasteurellosis, parasitic gastroenteritis (PGE), acute fluke and cobalt deficiency (pine), which can often be found together.
Read More >Polyunits for Production
Throughout the month of September the Farm Advisory Service is hosting a series of online meetings focusing on polyunits. There will be 3 meetings in total, each covering a different…
Read More >Webinar Recording: Climate Change – Cows v Cars
The ‘silver-bullet’ solution to the climate change crisis is for consumers to stop eating meat – fact or fiction? Topics surrounding climate change and GHG emissions are never far from…
Read More >Ammonium Nitrate Storage
Following the catastrophic explosion in Beirut reportedly caused by a large amount of Ammonium Nitrate which apparently was stored incorrectly, it is prudent to review the storage requirements for this…
Read More >Do You Know What Your Cows Weigh?
If you do not weigh your cows on a regular basis you might be surprised to know that the weight range between animals within the herd could be as much as 300 kg!
Read More >Lamb Finishing Options
There are a wide range of options for finishing lambs in Scotland. The choice of system will largely depend on the weight and type of lambs and the cost and availability of feed that can be supplied.
Read More >Keeping Lambs Growing
As lambs get bigger, they get less efficient at growing – an increasing amount of feed is needed solely for their maintenance. The contribution of energy dense milk to their diet starts to decline and the impact of mineral deficiencies and parasitic worms becomes more evident.
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