Content related to the topic: livestock

17 July 2024

Gestation Length Index

Gestation Length Index provides a prediction of gestation length for a bull’s calves.

29 March 2021

Changes will help breed healthier dairy cows

Three changes introduced to genetic evaluations from April - HealthyCow, Gestation Length and a rolling base

24 March 2021

New dairy breeding indexes - HealthyCow and Gestation Length

Learn more about new dairy breeding indexes being released this year to help improve cow health and your breeding programme.

7 December 2021

We Eat Balanced drives positive rethink of red meat and dairy for consumers

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

New rams and farms sought as RamCompare Phase III funding announced

After the initial five years of research, funding has now been confirmed for RamCompare t continue into the third phase

25 March 2025

Driving performance over a lifetime

Joe Carter's Holstein herd achieves an impressive daily lifetime yield of 20.4 litres.

17 March 2021

How to performance record your flock with Signet

Performance records provide ram breeders and commercial ram buyers with the best way to assess the genetic potential of breeding rams.

17 March 2021

Dispelling the myths about carbon sequestration

Learn about carbon sequestration and practical ways of increasing carbon storage and managing your soils effectively.

15 March 2021

Taking on the challenge of improving herd fertility

How Wallace and James Hendrie are improving fertility in their spring block calving herd by reviewing the previous calving season and fertility figures.

15 March 2021

Understanding teenagers in the dairy herd

How understanding cows and seeing them differently will improve cow flow

10 March 2021

Reducing mastitis during the dry period

Exploring the source of mastitis identified an issue with the dry cow environment and highlighted potential improvements

Replacement heifer development - lessons from Nebraska

AHDB Beef & Lamb were joined by Rick Funston, Professor of Animal Science at the University of Nebraska , for a webinar to discuss heifer development.