Livestock
19 April 2021
Our 2017 Strategic Farmer, Johnny Haimes, from Devon, joins Leah Shanks for an open and honest discussion on why he made the decision to disperse his suckler herd and begin rearing and finishing dairy-bred calves extensively.
14 February 2025
In his blog, Andrew Palmer, provides some useful tips for mitigating issues associated with our increasingly wetter winters, such as surface run-off.
18 December 2024
Enables farmers to find bulls that breed healthier cows that can stay in the herd for longer
17 July 2024
Gestation Length Index provides a prediction of gestation length for a bull’s calves.
29 March 2021
Three changes introduced to genetic evaluations from April - HealthyCow, Gestation Length and a rolling base
24 March 2021
Learn more about new dairy breeding indexes being released this year to help improve cow health and your breeding programme.
7 December 2021
Consumers are rethinking their attitudes towards red meat and dairy produced in Britain as the result of AHDB’s ground-breaking We Eat Balanced campaign launched earlier this year
22 March 2021
After the initial five years of research, funding has now been confirmed for RamCompare t continue into the third phase
25 March 2025
Joe Carter's Holstein herd achieves an impressive daily lifetime yield of 20.4 litres.
17 March 2021
Performance records provide ram breeders and commercial ram buyers with the best way to assess the genetic potential of breeding rams.
17 March 2021
Learn about carbon sequestration and practical ways of increasing carbon storage and managing your soils effectively.
15 March 2021
How Wallace and James Hendrie are improving fertility in their spring block calving herd by reviewing the previous calving season and fertility figures.
