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Report shows health and milk quality gains in UK dairy herds

Farmers have made significant improvements in dairy herd fertility, production and somatic cell counts (SCC) according to NMR's latest Key Performance Indicator (KPI) report

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
clock • 3 min read
Report shows health and milk quality gains in UK dairy herds

The report is based on data from 500 NMR-recorded Holstein Friesian herds for the year ended August 2023, and shows the trends from 2010 when the University of Reading first published the KPI report...

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