The Economics of Creep Feeding Lambs
Saturday 01 Feb 2025
Creep feeding lambs offers significant benefits, particularly for early finishing systems or where forage quality is suboptimal. However, its viability depends on a clear understanding of costs and potential returns.
Read More...Trial into feeding larvae on farm
Sunday 01 Dec 2024
A customer is taking part in a trial feeding larvae to one house of birds and comparing the outcomes to the sister flock on the same farm, acting as a control group.
Read More...Supplemental feeding for ewes in late pregnancy
Sunday 01 Dec 2024
Supplemental feeding is crucial in late pregnancy to support the ewe’s rising nutritional needs, the rapid growth of lambs, udder development and the production of colostrum.
Read More...Seafusion: Optimising nutrient balances with slurry-based innovation
Sunday 01 Dec 2024
Balancing nutrients like nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is a growing priority for UK dairy farms. With tightening regulations and environmental pressures, the need to efficiently manage these essential nutrients is more critical than ever.
Read More...Ensuring maximum growth rates for calves post-weaning
Sunday 01 Dec 2024
Weaning calves is a critical stage that sets the foundation for their long-term health and productivity. After investing in feeding over 1kg of milk powder per day to support strong early growth, your focus should shift to maintaining momentum during the post-weaning phase. Proper management of diet, environment, and feeding practices is essential to maximise growth rates.
Read More...The real story for livestock farmers
Tuesday 01 Oct 2024
Focus: Improving Soil Management
For livestock farmers, soil management is often overlooked in favour of more immediate concerns like animal health and feed supply. There seems to be a misconception that the soil will grow crops regardless how its farmed.
Read More...Is flushing an old-fashioned approach?
Tuesday 01 Oct 2024
Flushing ewes, which involves increasing their feed before and during tupping to improve ovulation, has been a common practice for many years. However, with advancements in sheep management, grazing strategies, and modern techniques like sponging, using teaser rams, and selecting fertile tups, flushing may be becoming less necessary.
Read More...Focus on shell quality
Tuesday 01 Oct 2024
Egg shell quality is mostly influenced before the egg is laid. The thickness of the shell is directly related to the time the egg spends in the shell gland—generally, the longer it remains in the gland, the thicker the shell will be. This means that eggs laid earlier in the day tend to have thicker shells compared to those laid later.
Read More...Controlling the Controllables...
Tuesday 01 Oct 2024
Well, what a strange weather year this is turning out to be?!
Some of you are saying that you have had one of your best grass
years and others of you are saying that the rain never seems
to have stopped falling from the sky?! One of the main reasons
that we all love agriculture is that no two days, seasons or
farms are the same. At a time where we are seeing fluctuating
markets, challenging harvesting windows, high costs, what can
we hope to achieve by 'controlling the controllables'?
Using Total LWG
Thursday 01 Aug 2024
In beef production, effective monitoring is essential for optimising efficiency and profitability. One of the most insightful metrics for gauging productivity is the kilograms of liveweight produced per day on the farm.
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