Consistent growth throughout their early years is essential to ensure heifers calve in at the most economical age at first calving of 24 months, but all too often turnout...

In the UK anthelmintic resistance is common in sheep, and while less so in cattle, it is a growing threat to their health and welfare. If left unimpeded, it could lead to...

This month’s checklist covers: Targeted Grass Nutrition Can you reduce night time calvings? Timely Tips Lungworm Vaccinations Key Dates & Milk Price Tre...

Volatile feed markets and increasing pressure on margins mean that the role of the farm nutritionist in creating a well-balanced ration to meet specific farm requirements...

Adopting a multi-cut silage system, which reduces the interval between silage cuts could be one way to help farmers maximise milk from forage - something nearly all respo...

Careful monitoring of the performance and health of freshly calved cows will help to achieve expected lactation yields.  Particular attention should be paid to cows who ...

The January checklist covers: Cryptosporidiosis in calves Forage planning Key dates Begin the year as you mean to go on! Winter water Be Prepared – Dealin...

This is the fourth issue of our new publication, research insight. The aim of the publication is to translate relevant scientific research into useful information for you...

Protein feed markets are always volatile but farmers can look to forward plan purchasing protein sources to manage costs or introduce more home grown forage proteins to t...

Enclosed in this month's checklist: Staff Appraisals – Have you completed yours yet? Cropping for 2019 Can you tell your beef x from your dairy x? Mastitis du...