WEBINAR: Milking for all it’s worth: results from a Farming Connect project on improving milk quality - 02/07/2020
Tom Greenham, Advance Milking discusses a recent project done with Farming Connect.
In 2019, Farming Connect commissioned a milk quality study in partnership with Kite Consulting, South Caernarfon Creameries and Advance Milking. The aim of this trial was to establish whether using...
Episode 21 - Farming Connect's Women in Agriculture week overview - 30/06/2020
This week we'll reflect on Farming Connect's Women in Agriculture week. In this episode we hand over the interview to a guest presenter to obtain the highlights from three that joined the week digitally.
WEBINAR: Moocall - using calving and heat detection technology - 29/06/2020
Wasted time and lost profitability are pitfalls every farmer can fall into. Whether it's time spent checking your cows for tail paint, or if it's waiting for signs of calving for a cow who won't give birth for days. Ag-Tech...
WEBINAR: Llwyn Goronwy: Evaluating the benefits of milk recording in the spring calving herd - 25/06/2020
Sean Chubb from LLC discusses how we can make use of NMR’s Grazing 4 recording service to:
- Cull persisent high cell count cow
- Select cows for breeding based on performance
- Rank cows at Llwyn Goronwy on kilograms of milk solids (MS)- per...
WEBINAR: Milking efficiency: more milk, less time - 24/06/2020
Tom Greenham, Advance Milking discusses the important of milking efficiently.
With herd size growing and labour availability often being a challenge on dairy farms, improving the efficiency of milking can give significant savings in time and money. More efficient milking...
Live broadcasts to connect farmers with Farming Connect demonstration farm projects
23 June 2020
Farming Connect has found a creative solution to the temporary suspension of its on-farm events this summer with a series of live digital broadcasts from its demonstration sites.
These broadcasts will take the events to farmers...
Dairy: January 2020 – April 2020
This dashboard outlines dairy key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between January 2020 - April 2020.