Dairy Farmer

Increasing the amount of maize grown could be one tactic to help mitigate some of the price pressures facing dairy farmers and get the best return from fertiliser on grass. Dairy Farmer reports.

Dairy producers have already made great strides in reducing methane, but with a pledge to reduce emissions of the gas by 30% in the next eight years, the race is on to find more reductions. Cedric Porter reports.

Ceva Animal Health, the manufacturers of Spectam Scour Halt, has announced the delisting of the oral solution 50mg/ml, raising questions for the 2022 lambing season.

Dairy farmers are being encouraged to include trace element supplementation during drying off to support the transition period.

Mounting legislative requirements to reduce nitrogen (N) and ammonia output from dairy farms coupled with price volatility around soya and other protein sources in dairy cow diets means alternatives are now being seriously.

Bringing cattle in for housing can often coincide with vaccinations being administered, but it is important to ensure these vaccinations are correctly timed. Angela Calvert reports.

Designer and manufacturer of milking equipment, DeLaval, has launched a new concept around automatic milking. Hannah Park reports.

Careful budgeting and persistence are the key requirements to the success of once-a-day milking systems. Wendy Short reports.

With an increased starling population as the winter months set in at risk of eating into total mixed rations and other hard feed stocks on dairy farms, we round up some of the advice on how to effectively control starling numbers. Hannah Park reports.

The R number identifies the potential for an infectious disease to spread, but can be massively influenced by management practices. Dairy Farmer talks to MSD Animal Health’s Paul Williams to discuss how it can be reduced as part of a control strategy for IBR.