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• Feed Planning Tool for Cattle and Sheep

  Author Name: Tried and Tested An innovative new tool from the Tried & Tested nutrient management team will be launched at Beef Expo later this month, following a period of farmer testing. ‘Feed Planning for Cattle and Sheep’ aims to boost... Posted May 11 2013, 06:35 AM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Geostatistics and precision farming

  Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding A new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association by University of Reading Professor Margaret... Posted May 03 2013, 01:57 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Milk producers supplying companies exploiting developing and higher value markets will gain

  Author Name: DairyCo Some of the key trends that have been identified in DairyCo's 2013 Guide to Milk Buyers review highlight how the milk buyers are dealing with the challenges and opportunities facing the dairy industry. read more Read More... Posted May 01 2013, 10:59 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Straw – what is it good for?

  Author Name: AHDB ed Alan Spedding There is a significant amount of potential profit for the grower, as well as bedding or energy potential, in the millions of tonnes of straw which is currently incorporated into the soil. Straw incorporation is seen... Posted Apr 29 2013, 08:36 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• New grass hybrid could help reduce the likelihood of flooding

  Author Name: BBSRC ed Alan Spedding BBSRC-funded scientists, from Rothamsted Research, the James Hutton Institute, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University, Lancaster University and the University of... Posted Apr 26 2013, 11:15 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Bolus could provide an early warning system of deterioration in cow health

  Author Name: Alan Spedding from Royal Agricultural College Press release In a joint project with the RAC and eCow Ltd, a new piece of research has started this week looking at the ways that farmers can improve dairy cow nutrition using the wireless sensing... Posted Apr 11 2013, 08:42 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Alternative protein sources

  Author Name: Richard Weightman, ADAS ed Alan Spedding Richard Weightman explains why investigating alternative sources of protein for use in livestock feed is crucial for reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint and improving profitability... Posted Apr 04 2013, 12:33 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• New foot-and-mouth vaccine

  Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network from a BBSRC Press release Scientists have developed a new methodology to produce a vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). Because the vaccine is all synthetic, made up of... Posted Apr 01 2013, 09:29 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Sustainable Beef, Sheep & Dairy training from ATP

  Author Name: Advanced Training Partnership Our training utilises the latest research findings from the Partnership and wider scientific community. Sustainable Beef, Sheep and Dairy training will focus increasing efficiency of and reducing environmental... Posted Mar 28 2013, 06:37 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Great progress being made by the agri-food Advanced Training Partnerships

  Author Name: Caroline Channing, _connect ed Alan Spedding In 2011 the BBSRC invested £12m in the creation of four Advanced Training Partnerships (ATPs) in the agri-food sector. They are designed to bring together industrial partners with research... Posted Mar 22 2013, 05:00 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Behavioral Principles of Livestock Handling

  Author Name: Temple Grandin, Livestock Handling Systems. Inc, Animal Science Department, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 Reducing stress during handling will improve productivity and prevent physiological changes that could confound... Posted Mar 20 2013, 07:21 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Breeding cattle for lower methane emissions

  Author Name: BSAS Animal Bytes ed Alan Spedding Selective breeding from cattle and sheep that are shown to naturally produce less methane is one promising way to achieve lower herd methane emissions. Recent research has provided early, but encouraging... Posted Mar 18 2013, 07:16 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• GreenCow Project Identifies Routes to Reducing Methane from Cattle and Sheep

  Author Name: SRUC Researchers at Scotland’s Rural College have found the breed of the animal makes very little difference to the level of greenhouse gas emissions from cattle. However results from initial studies, using SRUC’s GreenCow facility... Posted Mar 05 2013, 03:27 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• SRUC asks farmers for help in pain perception survey

  Author Name: SRUC SRUC researchers are calling on all British farmers to take part in a survey on pain and disease in animals. The researchers hope the survey will help them understand the attitudes and viewpoints of the people who look after livestock... Posted Feb 27 2013, 03:11 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Agroforestry

  Author Name: Stephen Briggs, Nuffield Farming Scholarship Agroforestry can make farms bigger and more productive, using deeper soil layers and the air space above the farm and make better use of the sun, air, soil and water than monoculture, It can be... Posted Feb 19 2013, 11:31 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Animal Husbandry Regained - the place of farm animals in sustainable agriculture

  Author Name: John Webster The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma. While world demand from a growing and more affluent human population is increasing rapidly, there are strong counter-arguments that we should eat less meat and... Posted Feb 19 2013, 08:22 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• The National Centre for Precision Farming

  Author Name: Harper Adams University Precision farming may be seen to be entering a new era of development in which engineering and associated technological innovation is opening up new dimensions of support and intervention, not only in the established... Posted Feb 08 2013, 09:40 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Grassland management for cattle farms

  Author Name: Caroline Channing, _connect ed Alan Spedding AgriSearch, which performs farmer funded research in Northern Ireland, has published a booklet on “Grassland performance and its relationship with profitability on 10 NI dairy farms.”... Posted Feb 07 2013, 02:57 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Precision Farming - how it's done

  Author Name: Jake Freestone, Oxford Farming Conference Today’s precision farming offers three main benefits. First, cost saving from accurate field operations, resulting in reduced diesel, man-hours and wearing parts. Second is to the environment... Posted Jan 16 2013, 08:56 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Livestock, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Energy Cost Calculators

  Author Name: DairyCo Electricity use on a dairy farm is primarily dominated by three key areas. We have some useful information to help you get more for your money, and use electricity more efficiency. Milk Cooling Methods Water Heating efficiency Saving... Posted Jan 02 2013, 09:17 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Managing large scale dairy farms

  Author Name: David Helliar, Nuffield Farming Scholarship The most successful and profitable dairy businesses all had excellent technical performance from their cows, but excellent technical performance on its own was no guarantee of success or profitability... Posted Dec 27 2012, 11:37 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Low input dairying may be less profitable than conventional but it may be more environmentally efficient

  Author Name: The SOLID project SOLID is a European project on Sustainable Organic and Low Input Dairying financed by the European Union. The project runs from 2011-2016. 25 partners from 10 European countries are involved. A large part of the activity... Posted Dec 21 2012, 11:47 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Heather McCalman comments on mob grazing blog

  Author Name: Heather McCalman, Manager, Grassland Development Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University In the blog, which was a summary of his Nuffield Scholarship, Tom Chapman concluded that: “... Posted Dec 17 2012, 03:24 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Advanced Training Partnership - pasture-based agriculture

  Author Name: Alan Spedding Driving sustainability and efficiency in pasture-based agriculture This Advanced Training Partnership provides a unique opportunity for professionals working with and within the extensive beef, sheep and dairy supply chains... Posted Dec 13 2012, 07:28 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• High immunity cows soon available

  Author Name: MRCVS Online Sires with a higher natural level of disease resistance will soon be available for farmers to buy, thanks to the latest technology. Cattle genetics suppliers, Semex, are to sell sires identified as having high immunity - a trait... Posted Dec 07 2012, 07:23 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Dairy [Edit Tags]