Dairy

29 November 2021

On 17 March 2021, John and Anna Booth from Rhual Dairy and technical speaker Jon Swain and Jonathon Sandercock from NFU Energy took part in a webinar focusing on improving energy efficiency and reducing electricity consumption and costs. Here, you can find the full list of questions along with Jon's and John & Anna's answers, taken from the webinar.

30 January 2024

Butterfat and protein content in the new season are both expected to be similar to 2020/21, based on our latest projections.

4 December 2023

Enables farmers to find bulls that breed healthier cows that can stay in the herd for longer

27 April 2021

Join us for this webinar to explore how to make the most from your buildings at calving with strategic dairy farmer Tim Downes from The Farm in Shropshire.

7 April 2021

With at least an estimated 85% of the area of a field covered every year by tractor tyres, the potential impact of compaction from machinery on yield can be significant.

1 April 2021

Take a waste walk this spring before re-filling clamps and make sure that however much home-grown forage you make this year, it’s going to be fully utilised.

30 January 2024

Despite shocking scenes of livestock trapped in floodwater, the overall impact on Australian milk production is expected to be small.

1 April 2021

Gestation Length Index provides a prediction of gestation length for a bull’s calves.

30 January 2024

GB milk production could reach nearly 12.75bn litres by the 2023/24 season, our estimates suggest.

30 January 2024

UK ex-farm wheat prices backed off in March, following a weakening in global grain markets. UK spot feed wheat was quoted at £199.10/t, down £3.00/t from last month (18 Feb-25 Mar), in the week ending 25 March.

30 March 2021

Tim Rycroft has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).

30 January 2024

Rising markets should support milk pricing into the early part of the summer

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