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

DAIRY

How two dairies are using bovine pheromone to reduce stress

High-yielding herds milking through robots and running heifers as a separate milking group are now using a bovine pheromone to further reduce stress levels at first calving. Despite already operating…

HEALTH AND WELFARE

How targeted mastitis treatment drove down vet and med costs

A concerted effort to tackle high incidences of clinical mastitis and repeat cases in high-yielding cows is helping a 200-cow Lancashire dairy farm save on vet fees and reduce milk…

SLURRY AND MANURE MANAGEMENT

Advice on investing in a cover for a slurry lagoon or tank

Huge reductions in emissions can be achieved by fitting impermeable covers over slurry storage – as much as 80% on an above-ground tank  and 50-60% by permeable floating materials, according…

SLURRY AND MANURE MANAGEMENT

On-farm slurry-fed anaerobic digestion: What to consider

Interest is growing in farm-scale anaerobic digesters, using slurry as a feedstock, driven by the need to reduce manufactured inputs – for economic and environmental reasons – and the cost…

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