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Shropshire dairy farm boosts milk yields and cow health with precision feeding

A Shropshire dairy farm has cut feed waste, removed metabolic disease issues and boosted average yields by at least 500 litre per cow since upgrading their out-of-parlour feeding system and installing in-parlour feeders

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Left to right: Will and Alan Watkins run a 400-head cross-bred herd.
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Left to right: Will and Alan Watkins run a 400-head cross-bred herd.

Alan Watkins, who farms near Ludlow with his son Will, brother Edwin, and dad John, runs a 400-head cross-bred autumn block-calving herd. For over a decade, the family has used out-of-parlour feeders...

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