Content related to the topic: farm-excellence

26 May 2021

Online workshops share the latest research from AHDB's Strategic Cereal Farms

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), is running a series of webinars and interactive workshops every Friday in June to report on how research is being put into practice across its network of Strategic Cereal Farms.

6 February 2023

Pregnancy rates drive profitability

How Jim Kirk has lifted pregnancy rate across his year round calving herd from 20% to an impressive 25%.

25 May 2021

Call for entrants: Scottish Arable Farm of the Year Award

The Scottish Arable Farm of the Year Award is now open for nominations and entries.

6 July 2021

Strategic Farm Summer 2021

Get your inputs, land, cereal crops and biodiversity to work harder for you - join our summer series of interactive workshops

11 May 2021

Reaching your herd’s full potential

How strategic dairy farmer David Cotton achieves an impressive herd replacement rate of 19%

11 November 2025

How to become a Strategic Dairy Farm

Find out more about become a host farm as part of the Strategic Dairy Farm network

12 May 2021

Plant health on trial at Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland

Baselining and plant health are the focus for the first year of AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland programme.

28 April 2021

Strategic Farm: Heifers – to breed or to buy?

6 March 2025

Four pillars of efficient pork production

Did you know that key performance indicators (KPI) can enable pig producers to make smart business decisions and monitor the effectiveness of their pork production? Learn more about Pork KPIs and how they can benefit your farm business.

20 April 2021

Harvest 2020 benchmarking reflections

As memories of harvest 2020 slip away and we focus on the harvest ahead, Teresa Meadows, AHDB Knowledge Exchange Manager, summarises the key conclusions from benchmarking discussions that have taken place across the country over the winter months.

20 April 2021

Personal development techniques the key take-home from Duxford Monitor Farm tenure

The importance of effective time management, work-life balance and personal development are, perhaps surprisingly, the key lessons learnt by David Hurst in his time as joint host of Duxford Monitor Farm for the last three years.

20 April 2021

Implementing selective dry cow therapy

Learn why implementing a selective approach to antibiotic dry cow therapy (SDCT) is important for your herd.