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

FEED AND NUTRITION

5 ways to be more efficient at maize production in 2025

The value of maize in feed rations is not in doubt but farmers are facing challenges in continuing to use it with confidence amid increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. They need…

MAIZE

Advice for creating temporary field clamps for maize

Clamping maize in a field could be an option for farmers to avoid overfilling permanent structures or making a mess on roadways – but it requires careful planning. Hefin Richards…

DAIRY

How herds can cut soya without hurting milk yields

Soya has long been a staple protein source in dairy cow diets, but its hefty environmental impact has led to questions over its continued use. Many milk buyers are now…

GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT

Benefits of early bite after maize for autumn-calving herd

Early bite is not only transitioning cows and rumens onto grazed grass, it is also saving bedding straw and labour for a Norfolk 180-cow autumn-calving herd. “We drop down to…

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