Autumn 2018 offers many dairy farmers more opportunity than usual for late-season establishment of perennial or hybrid ryegrass, with leys drilled in the coming weeks offering the potential to accelerate the rebuilding of depleted forage stocks.This was the message from forage experts Germinal at UK Dairy Day, where the company highlighted an early maize harvest and prolonged warm soil temperature… ...more

Holstein UK is delighted to announce the re-launch of its Virtual Cow educational and breeding model that will help dairy farmers. Previously only exclusively available to Holstein UK members, now the new, refreshed and improved Virtual Cow platform is available for all dairy farmers to access from the main Holstein UK website and it comes with additional features such as updated navigation and li… ...more

Visitors to this year’s UK Dairy Day will have the opportunity to find out how careful feed management can help increase control of business performance.As part of the event’s technical seminar line-up, Ian Leach, supply chain programme director at Alltech, will present on-farm strategies to improve the level of feed efficiency, focusing on increasing digestibility and reducing contamination and w… ...more

A pioneering new nutritional approach to protein formulation within dairy diets will be presented by Wynnstay at this year’s UK Dairy Day, being held on 12 September at the International Centre in Telford, Shropshire.As part of the technical seminar line up, Iwan Vaughan, head of dairy technical services at Wynnstay, will discuss the Wynnstay AminoMatch nutrition approach.“AminoMatch offers an alt… ...more

Nettex Colostrum Gold is a new colostrum supplement made from 100% natural colostrum sourced exclusively from high health status UK herds, ensuring your calves are able to thrive from day one no matter the challenges they face.Maternal colostrum is more than just the “first milk” – it’s a complex biological liquid formed in the udder before calving providing the calf with essential nutrition which… ...more

Carlow, Ireland , Friday, 17th August – The DeLaval Rotary E100 has been launched in the UK and Ireland. The new DeLaval E100 rotary is focused around the four customer challenges: Animal welfare, milk quality, farm profitability and work efficiency.As a market leader in rotary systems, DeLaval has gained years of experience to design the next generation of rotary parlours. Understanding modern da… ...more

Less than one month to go until UK Dairy Day 2018 – the UK’s must-attend day of dairy discovery. Join the dairy buzz on Wednesday 12th September at the International Centre, Telford for the 5th annual dairy trade event. View online the businesses attending, cattle show classes, practical demonstrations and seminars.Open from 8am to 5.30pm the event brings together all facets of the dairy industry;… ...more

2018 marks the final phase of a five-year AMR strategy (antimicrobial resistance) project which the farming industry, vets and policy makers have been part of with the aim of looking at how to best meet agreed AMR commitments. A fantastic start was made with a 27% reduction in antibiotic use in farm animals recorded in the two years to October 2017. Following this, RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicin… ...more

“Make every percent count.” That will be the message from leading forage preservation and animal nutrition company, Volac, at this year’s UK Dairy Day (stand H153 and C8, The International Centre, Telford, Shropshire, Wednesday 12 September).The company’s Ecosyl silage experts will be offering timely advice for safeguarding as much silage as possible against losses after the summer drought – wheth… ...more

The Cattle Show at UK Dairy Day, praised as a major attraction in the dairy showing calendar, is completing its line-up of show judges and is pleased to announce the latest additions to the exceptional panel. James Lambe (Dairy Shorthorn Judge), James Warren (Guernsey Judge) and Anna Stable (Jersey Judge) will face the tough challenge in the show ring this September as they take centre stage as co… ...more