Are your Cows Trending?
Tuesday 01 Apr 2025
Dairy farms generate huge amounts of data—some find it invaluable, others struggle to link it to daily decisions. And let’s be honest: a graph on its own never made anything better. But spotting trends and setting trigger points for review, that’s where the value lies.
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Evolution Yield Guard: Smarter Nutrition for Sustainable Performance
Wednesday 01 Oct 2025
Most dairy farmers know how hard it is to keep cows performing well while trying to cut emissions and manage costs. Feed efficiency, milk quality and sustainability all matter, but so does keeping things practical and workable on farm.
Read More...Back to the Basics
Friday 01 Aug 2025
As a placement student from Harper Adams, I am fortunate to go out on farm with specialists and disappear into the background despite my size!
Read More...Rumen Function: The Good, the Bad, and the Additives.
Monday 10 Nov 2025
Rumen Balance: The Key to Sustainable Production. Can yeasts, essential oils and buffers be part of this?
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Keeping cows steady: managing milk fever and low calcium
Friday 03 Oct 2025
Why calcium balance matters
Around calving, a cow’s calcium needs triple to produce colostrum and milk. If her body cannot mobilise calcium fast enough, she may suffer from milk fever (clinical hypocalcaemia) or hidden low calcium (subclinical hypocalcaemia). Both can cause loss of appetite, weaker muscles, and higher risk of disease, leading to reduced fertility and milk yield.
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Managing Metabolic Risk
Friday 10 Oct 2025
Good dry cow management launches them into lactation. Every dairy farmer knows the weeks around calving are critical. The “transition period” (about three weeks before and after calving) is when cows face their toughest metabolic test. Feed intake drops just as energy demands rise, and the cow starts pulling on her fat reserves. Managed well, she glides through this phase and into milk production. Managed poorly, she’s at risk of ketosis, fatty liver, retained placenta, displaced abomasum, or fertility issues later on.
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Challenging Traditional Beliefs About Dairy Nutrition
Monday 01 Dec 2025
Last month Crediton Milling were delighted to host Zinpro’s Dr Huw McConochie, Research Nutritionist, for a series of ‘Rumen Roadshows’ across the South West. These interactive workshops and discussions challenged traditional beliefs about dairy nutrition, focusing on the critical role of rumen health and muscle tissue development in heifers for long-term lactation success.
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