Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
December 2023
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
December 2023
Image by Woods, et al. (2022).
16 January 2024
Taking a proactive approach to tackling Johne’s, by regularly testing and removing infected animals, has reduced disease incidence from 16% to zero in the beef herd at a Welsh family farm which has taken...
This dashboard outlines business key activity undertaken across the Farming Connect programme between December 2023 – February 2024
16 November 2022
Planning the feeding and management of pregnant ewes is critical in the last six weeks of pregnancy, with farmers warned that getting it wrong risks foetal growth and development, even the future fertility of unborn lambs...
14 November 2023
A home mix ration formulated with high quality ingredients and incorporating homegrown forage has provided a cheaper alternative to bought-in concentrates for pregnant ewes and beef cattle on a Powys upland farm.
Richard and Donna Jenkins...
13 November 2023
Investing £30,000 in starling-proofing cattle housing is a major outlay for a Welsh dairy farming business but it calculates a payback period of just two months in feed savings alone.
In the months from October and...
06 November 2023
A Flintshire dairy farm expects to further cut antibiotics usage in its block-calving dairy herd by using an innovative technique that links individual cow DNA to her somatic cell count (SCC) level in a bulk milk...
