A new, free test to diagnose Mycoplasma bovis is now available to farmers.
Dairy farmers are being encouraged to include trace element supplementation during drying off to support the transition period.
Arla Foods plan to double their emission reductions by 2030, to help keep global warming at 1.5°C in line with Paris Agreement.
A vet-led calf club underpinned by knowledge exchange and benchmarking has helped farmer members improve calf health, productivity and rearing protocol.
The dairy said it continued to engage with customers to secure price increases to pass back to the farm gate
It is time for the ‘bullying tactics’ and power imbalance in the dairy supply chain between farmers and processors to end.
Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared.
Optimising the number of heifer calves produced by targeting and continuously monitoring the use of sexed semen could help business performance and carbon footprint.
Combining genomic testing with a sexed and beef strategy is helping Aberystwyth University’s farm to efficiently breed the best replacements to suit their new robotic system.