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Livestock
7 July 2022
David Barton is always looking for new ways to improve his suckler beef production so joined AHDB’s Farm Excellence project as a Beef and Lamb Strategic Farmer in 2017. Join him and his consultants for his final on farm meeting to learn about some of the changes he has made.
18 May 2022
Ruminant News spring/summer 2022 - with the recent rise in the cost of living and energy bills, this issue is very much focused on reducing fixed costs on farm. One farmer talks about reducing labour and medicine costs through using Targeted Selective Treatment when it comes to their worm control within his flock, whilst a beef suckler farmer talks about how he has reduced fertiliser use and reduced feed costs by optimising his grazing and has increased his outputs by doubling his herd size. The magazine also contains the fantastic results in changing consumer buying habits following the We Eat Balanced campaign and there are some dates for your diary on the back too.
11 May 2022
Dairy Roadmap announce an extension to their target for farmers to have completed a carbon audit.
11 May 2022
Join us to learn about the key findings from a recent AHDB-funded PhD that investigated which key performance indicators can have the biggest impact on sheep farms.
11 May 2022
Matt Blyth and Challenge Sheep project farmer, Ian Wilson, looking at how the use of electronic identification (EID) can aid decision making on farm to improve performance.
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11 May 2022
Promoting ewe longevity has been a key focus for AHDB’s Challenge Sheep project, which aims to further understand influences on ewe lifetime performance and best practice for managing replacement ewes.
10 May 2022
RamCompare’s year six results demonstrate how rams with key breeding traits can optimise flock profitability.
7 June 2022
The widely reported energy crisis may have caused our domestic energy bills to increase, but it has also led to dramatic price hikes for fuel, nitrogen fertilisers and feed costs.
16 June 2022
AHDB Strategic Farmers Chris and Louise Elkington are taking steps to reduce their risk of anthelmintic resistance.
6 June 2022
Effective worm control is vital in any profitable sheep system. Lambs with even a modest worm burden, with no clinical signs of infection, can have reduced performance and increased costs.
18 April 2022
Read about some of the ways we're helping farmers to keep improving pig health and welfare
13 April 2022
We spoke to AHDB's Head of Dairy Development, Nic Parsons about how the Dairy Roadmap is helping farmers and industry strive for Net Zero