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Why a switch to autumn block calving is improving resilience.

Authors :
Price, Rhian
Source :
Farmers Weekly. 6/14/2019, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

The drive to create a dairy system that can cope with fluctuations in the milk price, improve profitability and provide a better work-life balance has seen a Yorkshire farm transition to autumn block calving and at the same time improve grass use. At the time the farm was milking 100 cows all year round through robots, and yielding 11,000 litres from more than 3t a cow of concentrates. [Extracted from the article]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00148474
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Farmers Weekly
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
138672961