On Farm Consultancy
Consultancy is more than giving advice and Kingshay have a network of consultants, each with their own unique skill set.
Would your business benefit from a fresh pair of eyes?
Bringing clarity to your farming business, Kingshay delivers practical solutions that drive performance, profitability and sustainability.
Business Planning & Team Management
Having a clear business plan that is well communicated to the whole team provides a solid foundation for success. At the heart of this is understanding the needs and expectations for you, your family and your business.
Kingshay’s experienced network of advisers can support you with full strategic business analysis, planning and budgeting. This includes formulating realistic targets, with key performance indicators (KPI’s) to encourage solutions focused, profitable and sustained growth.
Our Profit Manager service is the ideal tool to properly understand the business strength and weaknesses and benchmark to comparable systems. Our advisers can formulate detailed full business budgets with the facility to provide five-year plans including projected profit and loss, flow of funds, balance sheet and monthly cash flow for each year.
Our team can also help with specific services around facilitation of communication, leadership, mentoring, personal development and success workshops for farm teams.
Livestock Nutrition
At Kingshay, we understand the specific needs of your livestock. Our experienced team combines scientific expertise with a deep understanding of animal physiology, ensuring that your animals receive the optimal balance of nutrients for growth, reproduction, and overall well-being.
Our advice will focus on what’s right for your business and meeting market needs. For dairy herds, our industry leading Dairy Manager costings service provides regular performance monitoring to ensure a close eye is maintained on input costs and margins in these challenging times. KPI’s including milk from forage support decisions to optimise the use of home-grown resources, which can be combined with practical advice on growing and feeding of conserved forages, alongside grazing management.
We can provide ongoing support and guidance, monitoring your livestock’s progress and making adjustments as needed.
Sustainability and Regenerative Ag
In an era of environmental consciousness and changing consumer demands, farm sustainability is no longer a choice — it is a necessity. Kingshay can provide expert advice and innovative solutions to make your farm more sustainable, resilient, and profitable.
We understand the importance of balancing productivity with environmental stewardship. Our team of sustainability advisers combine agricultural knowledge with a passion for sustainability and regenerative farming.
We work with farmers of all scales and specialties to develop customised strategies that reduce environmental impact, enhance resource efficiency, and promote long-term viability.
Kingshay have experienced advisers with a particular interest in regenerative farming methods and how this can benefit livestock health and welfare. As well as working on a one-to-one basis, delivering tailored consultancy advice for individual farm businesses, we have experience of delivering a range of training for farming groups across the country, including integrated parasite management and dung beetle safaris. We have advisers who have undertaken Holistic Management courses and are able to give advice from a holistic point of view.
Kingshay have also extensive experience in the collection and analysis of on farm carbon footprinting data both on an individual farm basis or for specific producer groups.
Soil Health and Nutrient Management
Do you want to improve your profitability while also preserving the health and quality of your soil?
Look no further than our soil and nutrient management consultancy services.
Soils are arguably the most valuable resource on farm – but often taken for granted. Without healthy soils farming is neither profitable nor sustainable. Healthy soils combined with sound forage/crop management are essential in all livestock production systems.
Our network of experienced advisers (including FACTS and BASIS qualified advisers) specialise in implementing sustainable soil and nutrient management practices that promote healthy crop growth, optimise nutrient use, and minimise environmental impacts.
Whether you need soil testing and analysis, comprehensive soil assessments, soil assessments for SFI or nutrient management planning, we’ve got you covered.
We take a personalised approach to every project, working closely with each client to understand their unique needs and goals. Our solutions are tailored to your specific region and soil conditions, ensuring the best possible results for your farm.
Our consultancy is underpinned by our full range of analysis services, including soil, carbon, grass, feed, water and slurry analysis available to all farmers, including sampling tools.
Grant Applications
Take the stress out of rural compliance and grant applications with support from our experienced advisers.
We can help identify funding opportunities that deliver real benefits to your business, from improving soil health and livestock welfare to investing in farm infrastructure.
Milk Quality, Mastitis and Parlour Testing
At Kingshay, we understand the importance of producing milk that meets the highest standards. Our team of experienced advisers specialise in providing tailored solutions to optimise milk quality on your farm.
Our comprehensive milk quality services encompass a range of critical areas such as milking procedures, hygiene practices, nutrition, mastitis management, as well as overall herd health.
Our consultants can work closely with your team, providing training and ongoing support to implement the necessary changes required.
By enhancing milk quality, you not only strengthen your reputation with your milk buyer, but also increase profitability.
Livestock Housing and Building Design
Getting the environment right is a key component for success in all livestock enterprises. Poorly designed or utilised buildings can increase the risk of diseases such a pneumonia, mastitis and lameness, increase stress on the animals and make routine management tasks time consuming, stressful and potentially even dangerous.
Whether you are in the process of designing a new building or looking to optimise your existing infrastructure our team can help.
Our consultants will work with you to understand your system and then provide advice on the optimum building design and layout. From advice on stock densities to pen layouts, to drainage, feed and water space, handling systems and ventilation we can provide advice on all aspects of livestock housing and building design to enable you get the maximum out of any investment you make and to ensure the environment is not holding back the performance of your livestock.
Mobility and Lameness
Lameness has been consistently identified as one of the largest health and welfare issues on farm and our consultants can help you address this challenge proactively.
We work with a network of accredited foot-trimmers across the UK so alongside investigation of and advice on any challenges you are having we can help you set up on-going foot-care programmes, including regular monitoring using ROMS accredited mobility scorers.
We can also work with you to develop your foot-trimming skills; our team of foot-trimming trainers includes LANTRA approved trainers who can deliver training to all levels of experience. So, if you are looking to learn the basics of foot-trimming or are looking to brush up on your skills please get in touch.
Fertility and Breeding Management
Whether you are looking for help and advice on a specific challenge or wanting someone to work with on an ongoing basis the Kingshay team can help you.
Our network of consultants can assist by benchmarking the reproductive performance of your herd and advising on areas for improvement, investigating infertility issues, and providing advice on ongoing breeding management.
With access to advanced breeding technologies and services the team can provide advice on genomic testing and using this to develop your breeding plans. Through our network across the country, we can also provide bull testing and embryo transfer services.
The team can also provide training on artificial insemination.
Youngstock Management
Calves represent the future of your herd, and it is essential to get their management right if you are going to enable them to fulfil their potential.
Whether you are rearing dairy heifer replacements or beef calves our network of consultants can help you minimise disease and maximise performance.
If you have a specific health or performance challenge or you are looking to set up a bespoke monitoring programme our consultants can help you. From colostrum protocols, health and performance monitoring programmes and disease investigations we can help you ensure the health and performance of your calves.
Our industry leading consultants will provide advice on all aspects of your youngstock rearing, helping you develop a plan that perfectly fits your system. We will work with your team to provide any training that is required and to ensure that all protocols are effectively implemented.
TB Biosecurity
Kingshay has been fundamental to developing the Defra funded TB Advisory Service www.tbas.org.uk, providing bespoke on farm advice with regards to TB biosecurity.
Kingshay consultants can advise on how to implement TB biosecurity measures, including staff training to ensure changes to reduce TB biosecurity risks are taken up as part of everyday farm practice.
TB Biosecurity covers many aspects of everyday farm practice, and should not just be a series of reactive measures after a breakdown. Biosecurity is pro-active planning and the use of measures to protect the health and welfare of you livestock. What does good TB biosecurity look like. What TB biosecurity measures are in place on your farm and what risks still make you vulnerable. Appropriate levels of biosecurity to reduce or eliminate the risk of reactors, and measures on farm to reduce the length of a breakdown and the chance of future problems can bring benefits to your business improving productivity alongside positive impacts on sustainability and ultimately improve profitability. We discuss TB in an holistic way, TB control is about understanding the politics and policies that affect farms, in order to acknowledge the role individuals can play in national disease control and importantly what you can do on your farm to reduce the chance of as well as the impacts of a TB breakdown on you and your business.
Infectious Disease and Biosecurity
Biosecurity covers many aspects of everyday farm practice and should not just be a series of reactive measures after a disease outbreak.
What does good biosecurity look like?
What biosecurity measures are in place on your farm and what risks still make you vulnerable? Appropriate levels of biosecurity to reduce or eliminate the risk of incoming disease, and measures on farm to eradicate or reduce endemic disease can bring benefits to your business, improving productivity alongside positive impacts on sustainability and ultimately improve profitability.
Our consultants can assess current levels of biosecurity, identify areas of risk and advise on a series of recommendations to reduce if not eliminate those risks.
“Kingshay Consultants have
helped us make real progress.
They combine their technical knowledge and experience with an ability to analyse any aspect of our
business and find a practical way forward that makes a real difference to bottom line profitability.”
Neil Christensen,
Steanbow Farms
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