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

ASSESSING PERFORMANCE

How even tiny losses in body condition impact fertility

Small changes in body condition score – invisible to the human eye – can have a detrimental impact on fertility in the next lactation, a commercial study has shown. See…

DAIRY

Advice on dairy biosecurity to minimise endemic disease risk

Assessing risk, asking the right questions and designing an ongoing, farm-specific management strategy are the foundations of good biosecurity when buying in stock. According to vets, buying in animals remains…

FOOT HEALTH

Pros and cons of lameness data analysis for cattle mobility

Hoof health data from mobility scoring and trimming records can be a powerful tool for identifying lameness patterns and guiding management decisions on dairy farms. But how can the practical…

DAIRY

Meet the 2025 NMR RABDF Gold Cup finalists

Five forward-thinking and environmentally focused dairy enterprises are competing for the 2025 Gold Cup award. The award is sponsored by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) and National…

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