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19 March 2024
Nutrient management can often be forgotten on beef and sheep farms, yet there is considerable scope to reduce costs and improve output through the use of home-produced and bought-in nutrients. All crops need a good nutrient supply from the soil to grow and thrive. This updated manual looks at how feeding grass and forage crops properly with manufactured fertilisers or slurries and manures can boost growth.
7 March 2019
Midlands Pig Club: Christian Anderson, of Bedfordia Farms will talk herd performance and removing in-feed medication.
28 February 2019
Fosseway Pig Discussion Group: Hear from Ian Gillies of Rattlerow Farms
11 March 2020
Lancashire Pig Discussion Group: AHDB health and welfare update
4 January 2019
Guidance about using alternative treatments from our Healthy Feet Programme to manage lameness and reduce antibiotic use in your herd.
18 December 2018
Managing feed for herd health, fertility and productivity will be the focus of an upcoming AHDB Dairy workshop held on 17 January.
13 December 2018
Antibiotic usage has never been a more important topic than it is today, which makes the findings of an AHDB Pork-sponsored Nuffield Farming Scholarship of great interest and importance to the agricultural sector.
29 November 2018
Mastitis is an inflammation of the mammary gland, usually caused by bacterial infection. It can present as subclinical infection or clinical disease, which can be acute (sudden, short-term) or chronic (long-term).
19 November 2018
This farm case study demonstrates the importance of sampling water on farm and the benefits that can be observed by carrying out a deep clean through shock dosing.
16 November 2018
The number of vaccines used on dairy and beef cattle is on the rise, according to a report published by AHDB.
16 November 2018
A report on the number cattle vaccines sold in the UK between 2011 and 2017 - split by disease: BVD, IBR, Leptospirosis, calf enteritis and Pneumonia
18 July 2022
Mastitis can result in loss of udder function, reduced milk yield and quality, and premature culling or death. Estimates suggest that it costs the UK sheep industry more than £120 million per year. This publication gives sheep farmers a detailed overview of the disease and how to treat it