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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s fair to say that the recent drought has dried out a lot of our pastures. While we are all hoping for some well needed rain, it is important to consider some of the knock on effects and diseases we may see. Jess Clayton tells us more... [...]
Heat Stress - Hot, Hot Heat! No, it’s not an article about the Canadian indie band from ‘the noughties’! It’s the main stress our livestock are contending with currently, and it's very obvious we need to be aware of heat stress. Rob Hall has seen the impact of extreme [...]
