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Kingshay Dairy Insight Publications
Stay one step ahead with Kingshay’s trusted Insight publications. Practical, expert-led briefings designed for modern dairy farming businesses. Produced since 1991, our concise, easy-to-digest updates deliver the knowledge you need to improve performance, strengthen your business, and support your whole farm team.
Our Insight publications cover all key areas of dairy farming, bringing together technical, research and business information, into clear, actionable advice you can use on farm. Alongside this, our monthly checklist provides timely reminders of essential tasks and highlights important policy changes, helping you stay organised and in control throughout the year.
Written and regularly updated by our specialists, each publication delivers clear, relevant advice in a simple format – ideal for farmers, family members, staff, vets and consultants alike.
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Dairy Insight
Catch Crop Grass After Maize
A timely maize harvest this season could provide the perfect window of opportunity to plant a highly productive, cost effective, catch crop grass ley. Doing so would provide additional dry matter yield, reduce environmental issues and potentially give cows an early spring bite. Issued September 2017 About Kingshay Farming Notes Since 1991 Kingshay has been […]
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Dairy Insight
Maize Harvest
Harvesting maize at the correct time is crucial to get that all important balance between starch and digestibility. At the same time, top notch management at ensiling is a must to minimise losses, promote intakes and drive cost effective production from forage. In this Note we look at assessing dry matter, setting up the forager […]
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The 2017 Maize Varieties Report
This year's Kingshay Maize Variety Report emphasises the importance of choosing the right variety to reduce risk and exploit the potential of this valuable crop. With impressive yields of up to 9.2 tonnes dry matter per acre, there were significant differences between the 24 varieties trialled. Taking account of yield and crop quality within an […]
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Dairy Insight
Making the best maize silage
At maize harvest, although weather windows dictate play to a large extent, you have control of a number of factors that influence the quality of maize silage.
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Dairy Insight
Maize Survey Results
Our maize survey results are back – and we find out what varieties farmers are growing, and the effects of 2014's long, warm summer on crop yields. Does variety really make much of a difference, or is it just where you grow it? Issued Jan 2015
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Dairy Insight
Harvesting Wholecrop Cereals
Wholecrop cereals can provide an alternative option for winter forage and are a good substitute for maize in the ration. Choosing the optimum time to harvest will largely depend on the ration nutritional requirements and economic crop production. This Farming Note covers: Economics of harvest timing Economics of feeding How to assess the dry matter […]
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Good Maize Silage Guide
Maize is an excellent feed providing a good source of starch to compliment protein in other forages. However, it can be an expensive crop to grow and good yields are key to making it an economic feed for livestock. This report provides the essential facts to enable you to grow good crops of maize on […]
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