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July 2021 Dairy Farming edition

Carefully choosing animal feeds can have a massive impact on a farm’s carbon footprint, according to co-product specialist, Duynie Feed. This will benefit farm finances as well as the environment.

Heat stress could be costing UK dairy farmers a 20% depletion in milk yield and significant fertility losses – but it is not just about short-term affects: generational productivity is at risk. Natalie Noble reports.

But its currency smoothing mechanism means the price will drop by 0.03ppl in the UK

First Milk will raise its members’ milk price by 0.5ppl from August 1.

Victoria and William Newsham took responsibility for their father’s Lancashire dairy herd after he died in September 2019. Since then they have made impressive changes to management, improving productivity and efficiency to secure the farm’s future.

‘The cow is the customer’, believes farmer Stephen Cope, of Bawhill 51AVÊÓƵat Adderley, Shropshire. This philosophy is what has led Stephen Cope to take a holistic, integrated and data-driven approach to running his herd.

We spoke to three independent experts about transition cow management.

The Roundelm Herd, based in Elmore, Gloucestershire, is achieving increased fertility rates and finding it easier to manage transition as a result of installing the SenseHub herd monitoring system from Allflex Livestock Intelligence.