Know How / Dairy

In a tough dairy market, with growing volatility and uncertainty, our Know How area aims to help you make your dairy business more resilient and profitable.

This is your starting point for lowering your cost of production, improving grass from forage and reducing reliance on antibiotics and improving cow health and welfare.

Key areas of focus:

  • Reducing costs to deliver a profitable business
  • Improving cow comfort, health and welfare
  • Increasing milk from forage
  • Meeting milk contract requirements
  • Breeding cows to suit your system

Latest Know How

DAIRY

How budgeting helped identify farm’s scope for dairy

Long-term budgeting at Hilley Farm in Shropshire has resulted in a more resilient, more profitable business that is better able to support three families. Only by understanding long-term business projections…

GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT

How to manage dairy cows at grass as seasons get more extreme

Regularly measuring grass growth, assessing trends and being adaptable to changing weather patterns are helping one grass-based dairy manage extreme weather conditions. Herd manager Antony Mitchell milks 600 spring- and…

DAIRY

How joint venture helped young couple farm in own right

Two seasons of collaboration with a neighbour gave Rhodri and Siwan Jones the confidence and cash to start dairying on their own. Rhodri trained as a solicitor and met Siwan,…

DAIRY

4 tips for getting the best return from dairy beef

Dairy beef presents a growing opportunity for dairy farmers to diversify their income and create a profitable new enterprise, as supermarkets and retailers look to secure supplies. Veterinarian Rob Drysdale…

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