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Livestock
8 May 2019
Building an effective footbath is an essential part of dairy farm design. Work through the footbath fitness test to see if you can improve your footbath design and use.
26 April 2019
Tough new Clean Air Strategy1 targets are spurring farmers and growers to develop more practices to cut ammonia emissions and reduce the industry’s environmental footprint, further.
10 March 2025
Below average rainfall is triggering UK farmers and growers to adopt water savvy techniques early in the year, to be prepared should another agricultural drought hit.
13 December 2023
Helping farms cope when water supplies are cut
14 August 2025
Useful advice to help livestock farmers deal with, or plan for, water supply disruption.
9 April 2025
Digital dermatitis causes lameness in cattle, which as well as the welfare implications, can cost around £99 per case and so reducing the spread is important.
16 April 2019
Improving the genetic potential of your herd will be the focus of the next meeting of Scotland’s Strategic Dairy Farm on 25 April.
12 April 2019
Understand how different Brexit scenarios could affect your farm business incomes
11 April 2019
Antibiotics are a medicine that in most cases should only be used to treat bacterial infections. Over-prescribing and the unnecessary use of antibiotics can increase the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Livestock producers have a responsibility to protect human and animal health by using antibiotics responsibly in order to minimise the risk of antibiotic resistance (AMR).
7 March 2025
Do you know how your animals are performing and your costs of production? Collecting records and then analysing them is the best way to understand how your business is performing.
9 April 2019
Our regular newsletter featuring articles on genetics, dairy marketing, strategic farms, new KPI targets and more...