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

YOUNGSTOCK MANAGEMENT

How smart ear tag data shows scope for tailored calf rearing

Large heifer-rearing operations in the US are using smart ear tag data to assess the effects of management on calves by analysing their rumination patterns before and after changes. See…

BLUETONGUE

Fertility checks urged amid bluetongue infection fallout

Farmers are advised to scan all cows this autumn to establish what’s in-calf and which animals are empty following bluetongue infection this summer. There is a potentially “scary” spring calving…

SLURRY AND MANURE MANAGEMENT

How farm's slurry covers meet the challenge of a wet winter

The value in topping a Pembrokeshire dairy farm’s 4,000 cu m (879,877-gallon) slurry lagoon with an impermeable cover was brought into focus last autumn during weeks of heavy rain. A…

SLURRY AND MANURE MANAGEMENT

How phosphorus recovery could change slurry management

As pressure grows on dairy farmers to manage phosphorus more carefully and reduce water pollution, novel technology to remove phosphorus from slurry could offer a game-changing solution. The technology has…

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