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

7 ways to lower the risk of 'rumen drinking'

How quickly calves consume milk and at what height they drink could be contributing to calf mortality on dairy farms and calf-rearing enterprises, according to Scottish data. Rumen drinking is…

LIVESTOCK

Advice on E coli toxic mastitis protocols

Prevention is always more rewarding than cure – and usually cheaper. This is particularly so in the case of an E coli toxic mastitis where (despite early detection and treatment)…

YOUNGSTOCK MANAGEMENT

How lung washing slashed antibiotics use in calf shed

A Welsh dairy farm has reduced its antibiotics use in calves by 90% and seen a big uplift in calf health since using “lung washing” to identify the pathogen responsible…

LIVESTOCK

Climate change moves the grass growth curve in Cornwall

Cornish dairy farmer and experienced grazing manager Chris Knowles is sharing updates about his 2024 grazing season with Farmers Weekly. In this fourth and final instalment of the series, Chris reports…

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