Written by John Swire
Shepherds are being urged to feed newborn surplus lambs more good quality colostrum during the crucial first 24 hours of life because up to 80% of UK sheep producers may not be feeding enough.
According to results from the annual Volac Lamlac surplus lamb rearing...
Written by Agriland Team
With the calving season almost upon us, it is good idea to keep the necessary steps in mind to limit the spread of a costly disease like Johne’s.
For those unfamiliar with this disease, Johne’s is a bacterial disease of cattle, which can prove costly on farms...
Written by Agriland Team
A farming family in the midlands had a pleasant post-Christmas novelty last month with the arrival of six hale and “hardy” sextuplet lambs a few days ahead of the new year.
The six lambs are owned by Offaly farmer and J Grennan and Sons feed merchant employee Mervyn...
Written by Agriland Team
The lambing season may be underway on some farms but, for the majority of farmers, their ewes won’t lamb down until January or February.
This means the focus for the next few weeks is to ensure that ewes are fed adequately to ensure they have sufficient energy to meet...
Milk powder pricing, always topical and emotive on-farm (especially if you are part of the Wynnstay Calf & Youngstock Team!), however, it seems even more so at the minute.
Milk prices are certainly not on the up and milk replacer prices are doing the opposite and increasing at a steady rate...
Written by John Swire
Calf rearers being forced to swallow high skim milk powder costs are being urged to review the dairy protein they feed to their calves.
“The reality is that modern, precision-formulated whey protein-based calf milk formulas deliver comparable young animal performance to...
Arla deadline for management plan end of the month.
Flying herd with everything’s too beef.
Any idea what the bare minimum I can get away with?
Really don’t want to waste my money testing but am I forced too?
Thanks
taking a cue from others with their own threads....and upon a suggestion of a friend whom i keep 'entertained':rolleyes:
so today.....up at the sheds at 6am to check for lambings although we're not supposed to start for a month:banghead:....just a single....penned it up and back for school...
:oops:
Eh up!
The idea of starting a thread about Holistic management has been on my mind for ages, if I am honest.
Lets start by me putting my cards on the table - I have NO formal training, NO books, and NO interest in starting big wars on which way is best.
I do, however, completely and...
Must be doing something right(y)
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WIN - The @BestFactory2016 Supply Chain Award is presented to Arla's Aylesbury site #bfa2016
Last week i upgraded my phone from a Nokia nearly as old as me to the cheapest smartphone on the market so now i have the TFF App and find myself taking photos of everything.
So i thought I'd start a dairy specific picture thread where people can post pics of cows, calves, bulls, parlours...
As an antidote to the grind your gears thread perhaps we need one to make us smile.
To kick off I had my daughter and grand daughter round to visit yesterday, dont see them as often as I would like as they live away, but having very little contact with her after my divorce due to her mother...
Just mentioned in Agricultural Matters it might be interesting if everyone just took a picture today of what you were doing, however mundane it maybe, would show the variety of work carried out, will start tomorrow.
Another thread to help TFF members track prices.
The official AHDB prices can be seen here: http://beefandlamb.ahdb.org.uk/markets/deadweight-price-reports/deadweight-cattle-prices/
Please include sale location in all your prices if it differences from the location on your profile.
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