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17 jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The cows have always been good at utilising forage at Brook House Farm near Whitchurch, Shropshire, and, when a problem arose with silage quality, introducing Actisaf® premium yeast probiotic significantly improved cow performance across both...

16 jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Many dairy herds will see milk butterfat levels drop when their herd is grazing lush, spring grass – something that is often accompanied by dungs becoming loose. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]But back in 2016, dairy...

12 jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The inclusion of Actisaf® yeast probiotic in the milking and dry cow diets at Little Hook farm in Haverfordwest, South Wales, is helping to maintain the performance of a high-yielding herd. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Dan...

11 jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Peaks Farm is located in the village of Onneley, just inside the Cheshire border and overlooking the surrounding counties of Staffordshire and Shropshire. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Andrew Moss is the second generation of his family...

04 jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] For dairy farmers Barry and Philip Meeke, Actisaf® has not only boosted milk yields, but also improved herd fertility and provided a solution to scouring in calves. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Based near Dromore, Northern Ireland,...

08 jan

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] One of the challenges of managing
 high yielding dairy cows is getting the balance right between rumen health and performance. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Feed too much starch and cows can skate on the edge of...

19 dez

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Whilst Cumbrian dairy farmer, Malcolm Errington, was generally pleased with the yield and milk quality from his herd of 200 cows, he was concerned that lameness and fertility levels were higher than they should be. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator...

19 dez

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] For British Blue breeder, Philip Halhead, it is essential that his beef animals achieve good growth rates whilst maintaining functionality and health. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Philip runs the reputed Norbreck Genetics company from his farm...

19 dez

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] High quality grazed grass lies at the heart of the 270-strong Friesian-based spring-block calving system Robert Sims runs at Holly Bank Farm, near Congleton in Cheshire. But there were a few signs that poor rumen...

19 dez

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Good performance and good rumen health go together according to dairy farmer, Adam Sill. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]Adam runs Ash Tree Farm near Ashbourne in Derbyshire, where he milks 260 high yielding pedigree Holsteins three...

23 nov

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jason McGrath runs Ashleigh Farms based in County Waterford with his father, Jim and brother, James. The family business, which started out with just two sows in the late 1960s, now has a head count...

19 jun

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1483612054482{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Fardel Barton, near Ivybridge in Devon, has certainly got some history. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="transparent" thickness="0" up="30" down="0"][vc_column_text]The farm was first noted around 100 years before the Doomsday Book as a Saxon Estate and the Fardel Stone, now...