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Plan your parasite control at housing with a view to preventing production loss and supporting healthy growth in youngstock this winter.

As thoughts turn to winter feeding, Bruce Forshaw, ForFarmers product manager, explains the importance of silage analysis when preparing diets for the coming season, particularly with current tight margins.

The neck collars and ear tags used by SenseHub to detect heats and monitor rumination and health parameters in dairy cows can also be used as ID tags for compatible milking parlours and automatic shedding gates.

Correct management in the transition period, including meeting greater needs for trace minerals, underpins milk yields, fertility and profitability in the subsequent lactation.

Measure to manage

Mortality rates due to calf diarrhoea can be high (greater than or equal to 50 per cent) 1, especially in large outbreaks, usually due to excessive fluid loss and/or septicaemia due to bacteria from the gastrointestinal tract getting into the bloodstream.