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

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Tips on getting the most from benchmarking to drive profit

Benchmarking is good for business, but only if you are honest with the figures. The exercise becomes meaningless if the numbers are incorrect, says Cheshire-based consultant Gaynor Wellwood. Results are…

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How milk source heat pumps have slashed dairy’s energy bills

Installing three milk source heat pumps is saving a Somerset cheesemaker more than £70,000 a year on electricity bills. Investment by Barber’s, Maryland Farm, Ditcheat, in this new technology is…

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How difficult succession talks led to dairy expansion

Despite being a partner in the business at the age of 18 and driving many key decisions, John Cartledge found his ambition had outgrown the acreage at his family’s dairy…

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Advice on balancing fibre and concentrates in dairy diets

Dairy farmers who capitalise on a positive milk-to-feed-price ratio by upping concentrates in herd diets risk triggering acidosis and other metabolic issues if they fail to consider fibre. Although milk…

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