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

CALVING

Causes of calving caesareans and how to reduce interventions

A vet audit of more than 600 caesarean sections performed on cattle showed that the majority – 77% – took place in suckler herds. And in 62% of all cases,…

LIVESTOCK

Calving detection technology: 3 options compared

From smart boluses to cameras and tail-mounted devices, the evolution of technology means unnecessary late-night trips to the calving shed can be a thing of the past. Three farmers share…

LIVESTOCK

How to influence good people to help your farm business

Winning friends and influencing people is not just a job description for an individual who earns a living from persuading others to follow their lifestyle choices on social media. Dairy…

DAIRY

Advice for grazing high-yielding Holsteins

It is no surprise that many year-round calvers with higher-yielding cows find grazing stressful. Allocating grass is difficult when cows are at different stages of lactation, and, unlike a total…

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