Like all farms out there, Walford has been looking for ways to reduce the cost of production to offset the increase in fertiliser and feed, as well as take advantage of the removal of BPS payments.
Milder winters are affecting grass growth and forcing dairy producers and advisers to reconsider their grassland management at the end and beginning of the grazing season. LIC’s Sean Chubb talks strategies.
Are you a dairy farmer in France interested in improving the profitability of your farm? This open day will help you apply profitable NZ grazing techniques in a French way.
Input costs and carbon footprint are among the forces pushing dairy producers to make more milk from grass. Supporting AHDB’s grass campaign, grassland specialist Piers Badnell suggests even higher production herds can get more milk from grazing.
Flexible milking regimes have been growing in popularity within the New Zealand dairy industry. This has lead to the undertaking of trials to find the key requirements for it to succeed. Here are the findings.
With the price of running a business on the rise, LIC’s lead Pasture to Profit consultant, Sean Chubb, gives some tips on how to ensure your business is resilient in these challenging times.
In a plan to utilise economies of scale, and reduce our carbon footprint, we are working together with Cogent to develop a distribution programme that ensures our straws are delivered efficiently to farmers across the UK this year.
We cover the latest news from LIC’s innovative Walford College monitor dairy farm including results from the first three weeks of mating and recommendations for the upcoming weeks.
In this insightful webinar LIC’s Malcolm Ellis presents findings from New Zealand farms on efficient cows, Sophie Evers from Teagasc shares data from the Irish dairy industry then we cover the practical application of these concepts in a British herd.
LIC has joined forces with Barbers Auctions and Gwilym Richards as Market Drayton Dairy Sales to offer six specialist market days next year that will give producers a chance to see any cows they buy playing a major part in their overall herd improvement plan.
For the last two years, LIC has been working with North Shropshire College on their Walford College campus farm. Together we want to improve the sustainability of the farm by improving the milk from pasture, the longevity of the cows and the financial stability of the business.
There has been a lot happening in New Zealand’s animal evaluation space over the past 18 months, including developing enhancements to the national animal evaluation system and a review of the National Breeding Objective.
