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

Grant brings 'excellent' improvements to youngstock handling

For his youngstock, spring block-calver Rupert Major installed an “excellent” curved handling facility instead of an “average” one to meet the requirements for Defra funding two years ago. Farmers Weekly…

GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT

Advice on adding herb species to a grazing reseed

Walking grazing fields to identify plant species when they are in growing and flowering mode will establish which clovers and herbs are naturally occurring on the farm. Reseeding costs can…

DAIRY

Pros and cons of feeding a home-grown dairy ration

Producing a home-grown ration for cattle is an aspiration for more and more livestock farmers, and many rearing and finishing beef have made good progress in this endeavour. But dairy…

DAIRY

6 tips on delivering water for dairy cows

Many dairy farms have outgrown their water supply as they have increased cow numbers. Yet investment in water infrastructure often is not considered until a problem arises. Phil Evans is…

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