Our Farms Projects

Project aims: 

• This project will focus on disease prevention in calves and youngstock, looking at best practice and management tools to reduce respiratory diseases.
• The project will...

To be a true block calving system the fertility and condition of your cows is paramount.  It is important to know your figures and percentages. Kate Burnby...

Key areas you wish to focus on as a demonstration farmer?

Foot health in a robotic milking system: we are interested in alternatives to footbathing; in a conventional milking system footbathing can easily be done...

Aim of project

The focus of this project is to compare the accuracy of two grass measuring systems; plate meter and satellite imagery. A cut and weigh method...

Main Objectives

• Improve business resilience by reducing cost of production.
• Utilise innovative technology to improve herd and farm performance.
• Develop a greater understanding of drivers of profitability on farm.
• Explore best practice through...

Project Objectives:

Determine the overall soil health of all fields

Detect where there is any correlation between worm numbers, grass growth...

Project aims: 

• Using standardised pre-milking routines, this project aims to improve milk quality and reduce milking time, teat damage and mastitis cases. Increased yields and opportunities to qualify for somatic cell count/bactoscan...

Rhydeden Farm is a 100 hectare, 300 split block calving dairy herd with 175 calving in the spring and 125 calving in the autumn. The herd is currently averaging 6500 litres per/cow with 4.5% Butterfat...

Project aim:

The aim of the project is make better use of data by recording all the cows individually. This will...