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

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Advice on pasteurisation of colostrum to improve calf health

Antibody-rich colostrum strengthens a neonatal calf’s immune system, reducing the animal’s future risk of contracting a microbial infection. But when that feed is contaminated with bacteria, absorption of those immunoglobulins…

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How simple system keeps calf losses at 1% for block calver

Keeping calf mortality low while calving 650 cows in a 10-week block is no small feat. At Norwood Place Farm in Surrey, a simple feeding system, tight hygiene protocols and…

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Advice on keeping track of dairy heifer rearing costs

Keeping calf and heifer rearing costs on a separate spreadsheet can highlight areas to cut waste and improve efficiency, while also monitoring to see if growth targets are being met.…

YOUNGSTOCK MANAGEMENT

Advice on how much milk to feed to grow resilient heifers

Calves on automatic machines can drink up to15 litres a day (when given the choice) in as few as seven and as many as 13 visits to the feeding station.…

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