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Livestock Nutrition
29 May 2020
The weather is certainly throwing some challenges our way this year and the biggest impact is the reduced grass growth.
29 May 2020
We have gone from the wettest February to the driest April and May, and it doesn’t look as though there is rain coming anytime soon.
28 May 2020
Top tips for grazing youngstock to reduce feed, labour and bedding.
1 June 2020
One method to use surplus saleable milk is to feed it to calves instead of a milk replacer.
14 May 2020
David Merrett from Oldbury Farm, Gloucestershire, discusses why he decided to start cut and carry and the impacts this has had on his farm.
10 May 2020
Challenge Sheep is a research project to develop best practice for managing replacement ewes and understand the impact of the rearing phase on a ewe’s lifetime performance
22 May 2024
First generation farmers Rob and Anna Hawke joined the AHDB Beef & Lamb-funded project, Challenge Sheep, when it began in 2017.
22 May 2024
Strategic Farmer, Adrian Coombe, farms with his wife Lyn, and father Peter, at Dupath Farm in Callington, Cornwall.
28 March 2025
Liver fluke is a parasite that affects the health and welfare of livestock, specifically cattle and sheep. This research investigates whether liver fluke in silage poses a risk to livestock.
16 April 2020
Investigating new systems which will make beef cattle more efficient to produce, less damaging to the environment and yet still more cost-effective for farmers
5 May 2020
Latest research on the effect of chop length when lucerne is fed alongside maize silage in dairy cow diets