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Cheers, I’m not that well up on it to be fair just a Article I read,

New clover safe spray apparently just been released. Anyone know of any uk distributor? Tia

Quad all day long had 2 rangers, for about 3 years went back to Honda 500, build isn’t what it used to be but you barely put a spanner to them

I’ve fly sprayed and ivomeced my 12 month old heifers already to try to stop this problem but ours is also associated with a bad wart problem. But I think flies are the underlying issue. Since we don’t rear them close to a big river things have improved a slight bit. I’m not sure if out...

Bought a 2nd hand spreadabale 3 years ago, absolute game changer for us spring calving, calves and calving cows get bedded without reminding people now, easy to just use part bales rather than people getting tired with a pick or shaking the hell out of the grab.

No bolusing here last 2 years, 85% 6w ic rate last year, 8% nic in 10w. All I do is mag chloride in water. First year I tried every other cow, then following year late and older cows. Didn’t see any difference in ones bolused or not.

Seems about right Arla=housed system, oh apart from the advertising

The lack of evening meetings was annoying, especially for us spring calvers and also because most of us are high users of fert.

We use Nrm for our soil samples, is it straigt forward enough to get an Organic matter test done that Arla accepts? Can’t see it on their sheets?

Did this for 10 days, probably retrained half of a group of 14

Reviving this topic, just wondering if anyone’s still doing this? I’ve got quite alot of heifers that arnt lying in cubicles and wondered how close to calving can you do them?

Anyone still just using ambient temperature water to thaw straws? Sexed and conv. Tia

Just been awarded a good amount to cover some unroofed yards and a roof for a silage clamp that is yet to be build(replacing existing non saffo compliant clamp with new one in existing location). couple of queries:- 1. Can we draw down stage payments on individual areas that are to be roofed? (...

We’ve had it creeping in here, milk test all cows before breeding. Don’t serve any heifers to dairy when there dam has tested positive. All Nic cows blood tested

You might find block calving is easier on management and staffing 🤷‍♀️