NORTH – James Aitken It is now three months since the clients of Orchard Vets in Glastonbury moved over to Synergy, and likewise three months since I joined the Synergy team. As a traditional mixed practice Orchard had been finding it increasingly difficult to provide a gold standard service to the vastly different clients and […]
Tag Archives: Milk Yields
October – News From Our Rounds
How can friendly flies – Parasitic Wasps – help with on farm fly control?
New solution to fly control Flies are a problem for all of us – Summer mastitis, eye infections, drops in milk yields and growth rates. On top of this, they are a continuous irritation to you and your staff working on farm. Despite our best efforts, flies continue to be a challenge on many farms. […]
Prof Mitloehner – What he doesn’t know about Greenhouse Gases and how they relate to livestock production, isn’t worth knowing! BCVA Congress session review
The piste de resistance of BCVA’s sustainability series was UC Davis Professor Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru on Twitter). Prof Mitloehner previously served as the chairman of a Global United Nations & Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) partnership project to benchmark the environmental footprint of livestock production. His key research quantifies ruminant greenhouse gas emissions and investigates […]
Metabolic Profiling by Mike Kerby – Nov 21
Now is the time to focus on a balanced winter ration especially for dairy cows. This Autumn it is probably more important than for many years as most 2021 grass silages are variably low in crude protein (CP) and Metabolisable Energy (ME). The price and availability of concentrates/straights is rocketing and uncertain respectively. At least […]