Our Farms Projects

Trialling Maize Intercropping with Reduced Inputs
 

Jonathan Evans farms at Berryhill, near Newport in Pembrokeshire alongside his father Marc, where they milk 220 cows, calving all year round. With a focus on improving...

Lean Management in the Dairy Business

Project aims: 

• Lean Management is a management model that has been devised to support and assist with continuous...

Project aims:

• To compare the benefits of genomic testing against parental average data when selecting which bulls to use on which cows for the best...

Main Objectives

• Improve efficiencies and increase profitability.
• Demonstrate how important people skills and management are for a profitable business.
• Gain new ideas to help the industry move forward and become more competitive.

Marian...

Project aims

• The potential cost benefit of heifer synchronisation to achieve a tight spring calving block whilst moving from an AYR (all-year-round) herd which...