Content related to the topic: livestock

2 January 2025

Rotation, cultivation and drilling options for cereal disease management

Discover how to exploit these non-chemical control options.

28 April 2021

Strategic Farm: Heifers – to breed or to buy?

12 May 2021

Meet the Challenge Sheep farmers

Meet the Challenge Sheep farmers. A project to develop best practice for managing replacement ewes as well as a better understanding of how the rearing phase can affect a ewe’s lifetime performance.

10 March 2025

Removing zinc oxide from pig diets

Find out how to maintain productivity and manage your pigs’ diets without zinc oxide

4 April 2025

Maternal Matters

Find out about breeding, calving and managing heifers

6 March 2025

Four pillars of efficient pork production

Did you know that key performance indicators (KPI) can enable pig producers to make smart business decisions and monitor the effectiveness of their pork production? Learn more about Pork KPIs and how they can benefit your farm business.

22 April 2021

Making the most of vaccines

During this webinar we heard from a number of well-known pharmaceutical companies who took attendees through vaccine development, administration, usage and more.

20 April 2021

Implementing selective dry cow therapy

Learn why implementing a selective approach to antibiotic dry cow therapy (SDCT) is important for your herd.

20 April 2021

Improving transition management on an AYR system

Explore top tips in transition management, how to assess your transition and get your cows off to the best start after calving.

19 April 2021

Strategic Farm: Be bold, be brave and ask 'does my business work for me?

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

BLOG: Ten top tips to reduce the impact of wetter winters on outdoor pig paddocks

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

HealthyCow index

Enables farmers to find bulls that breed healthier cows that can stay in the herd for longer