Bulk tank milk ureas are a useful tool when used in conjunction with milk proteins, cow condition score and herd production. Urea is the animal’s way of removing excess nitrogen from the system.

Just over half of the eggs a hen lays over its lifetime will be classified as large or very large (weighing more than 63g) and retailers and shoppers have developed a taste for them in the past few years.

As with all these things, a nutritional solution is only as good as the management on farm. If the cows are without water or feed, are chronically lame or massively overstocked any amount of a ‘new’ product will not solve the issues for these cows.

Dairy cows are known to mobilize body fat to achieve their genetic potential for milk production, which can have a detrimental impact on the health, fertility and survival of the cow.

A snapshot of some of the new products that are now available.