Body condition scoring (BCS) was developed around 20 years ago and is widely accepted as a practical means of assessing the impact of negative energy balance in early lactation. This system ...

KPIs are a set of figures that help you manage your farm by showing, at a glance, which areas are performing well and those that need to be reviewed. We’ve simplified the available on-farm measures ...

Achieving better returns from a suckler herd depends on increasing the number of calves weaned from the cows and heifers that are mated. Nutrition, health and good management drive fertility. Feeding ...

The Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) helps you make the most of organic materials and balance the benefits of fertiliser use against the costs – both economic and environmental. Section 4 covers the ...

It is important to feed high-quality colostrum that has been measured using a Brix refractometer or colostrometer. Good-quality colostrum contains at least 50 g/L of IgG. Any colostrum containing <20 ...

This Microsoft Excel cost benefit analysis (CBA) tool is an aid for making rational investment decisions and provides a framework for evaluating investment projects. Accompanying the tool is a short ...

What are cover crops, catch crops and green manures? Cover crops, catch crops and green manures are non-cash crops that provide potential benefits to a rotation. Typically, cover crops are grown over ...

Mastitis causes a cow’s udder tissue to become inflamed and painful. Reducing its occurrence helps produce more high-quality milk and increases your herd’s saleable milk yield. Mastitis treatment and ...

AHDB estimates overall organic milk production from a weekly survey of the largest milk buyers. The volumes are scaled up based on other available data. Figures are collected every week from dairies ...

Forage for Knowledge is our weekly grass newsletter, which gives you grass growth from across the UK, as well as technical information related to grassland management. The Recommended Grass and Clover ...

The AHDB Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) delivers variety-performance data. With information on yield and quality, agronomic features and market options, use these variety-specific ...

Widely present in many horticultural and arable fields, slugs can damage crops all year round. With impacts on yield and/or quality potentially severe, it is important to suppress populations of these ...