Management Advice for Dairy, Beef & Sheep

Careful management of activities and processes on farm can make a huge difference to animal health and welfare. Here, the team give some advice and tips for successful management:

An alternative to chemical fly control
Beef, Dairy, Management, Sheep

An alternative to chemical fly control

With the days lengthening and the weather turning warmer, spring will happily soon be upon us. However, unfortunately that also means that fly season is on its way, with all the unwelcome irritation and nuisance that flies cause to livestock and the people that work with them. Tom J gives [...]

LLM Farm Vets2020-03-13T16:03:10+00:00March 13th, 2020|Beef, Dairy, Management, Sheep|

Claire’s Worm Diary (soil health)
Management

Claire’s Worm Diary (soil health)

Soil. Dirt. Mud. Whatever you want to call it. Turns out it’s quite exciting stuff and I’ve become more than a little bit obsessed with it recently…. Soil health is the ability of a soil to sustain crop and livestock productivity long term. Ultimately – if your soil’s healthy, your [...]

LLM Farm Vets2020-03-13T12:01:20+00:00March 13th, 2020|Management|

Milk with confidence!
Management, Medicines, News

Milk with confidence!

Avoiding residue failures and ensuring your milk is of the highest quality is crucial. So you need to be able to milk with confidence to positively promote the amazing product that is milk. We don’t need to remind any of you of the media storm around livestock farming that has [...]

LLM Farm Vets2019-12-19T14:58:11+00:00December 19th, 2019|Management, Medicines, News|

Clarifide – to test or not to test…
Dairy, Management, Youngstock

Clarifide – to test or not to test…

The Clarifide genomic test has been spoken about a lot recently, so we wanted to give you our overview: What is the difference between Clarifide and Clarifide Plus? Both are in-depth genomic tests that can give an indication on genomic traits including; health and fitness, production, type and composites, milk [...]

LLM Farm Vets2019-10-08T10:56:47+00:00October 7th, 2019|Dairy, Management, Youngstock|

Why are dung beetles so good?!
Beef, Dairy, Management, Sheep

Why are dung beetles so good?!

It’s great to see stock out again at the start of what we hope will be a fantastic grazing & growing season. It is often easy to forget what other life is also working hard for us in our fields, such as the humble dung beetle (bee & earthworm among [...]

LLM Farm Vets2019-06-14T10:41:00+00:00June 14th, 2019|Beef, Dairy, Management, Sheep|

VetTech Tails – Fly Control
Beef, Dairy, Management, Sheep

VetTech Tails – Fly Control

Doesn't time "fly?" In Rach Coopers first issue of TechTails with her new knee, she goes into detail on the importance of fly control this year and how the VetTech team can help. Flies are just a real nuisance to us and livestock. Being plagued by these pests all day [...]

LLM Farm Vets2019-03-08T16:21:59+00:00March 8th, 2019|Beef, Dairy, Management, Sheep|

5 ways to improve your beef housing
Beef, Management

5 ways to improve your beef housing

It’s now well accepted that housing can hugely impact on the productivity of our dairy cows. But sometimes we can overlook how much of an impact it can have on the health and productivity of our housed beef cows. Matt Hylands gives us five things to focus on… Obviously not [...]

LLM Farm Vets2019-03-04T15:45:21+00:00January 16th, 2019|Beef, Management|

TB Advisory Service
Management

TB Advisory Service

A new service, which is free to farmers, has come to LLM. Joe Wheeler from our VetTech team dishes out the info on this funded service.The TB advisory service (TBAS) have trained some of the LLM team - Natalie Parker and myself from the VetTechs and Andrew Henderson from our [...]

LLM Farm Vets2018-11-28T11:02:53+00:00November 13th, 2018|Management|

Autumn Pasture Management
Dairy, Management

Autumn Pasture Management

It doesn’t need saying that this year has presented a real challenge for herds that graze their cattle with the May-July period being both the hottest and driest on record. Katie Fitzgerald from our new Derbyshire practice, takes us through the stats and Autumn pasture management tips... Grass growth [...]

LLM Farm Vets2018-09-13T10:27:15+00:00September 13th, 2018|Dairy, Management|

Kiwi Yarns – Minerals
Dairy, Management

Kiwi Yarns – Minerals

In the final installment of Kiwi yarns (did Hannah really go to New Zealand I hear you ask?!) I’ll be talking all things minerals. Despite working predominantly with dairy cattle over in NZ, these principles apply to dairy cows, beef and sheep alike! Given our recent tropical climate mineral supplementation [...]

LLM Farm Vets2018-08-20T08:36:04+00:00August 31st, 2018|Dairy, Management|

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