Here are some top tips for turning out Ewes in a wet spring: Find your local merchant now and ask for Speedrite!

We have rebranded Tru-Test MiHub Livestock Management to Datamars Livestock, as it is now part of the Datamars Livestock family of...

Your earth system is the most important component of your electric fence.  An effective earth system will optimise the performance of...

When rearing healthier calves on milk replacer, good hygiene and nutrition is essential. But the first step is ensuring sufficient...

UK farming is never short of challenges. Inclement weather, extra regulations or ‘red tape’ etc. In addition, we now see, hear and watch...

As we move towards spring calving and lambing our minds are focused on nutrition and the feed, we have available on farm.

As we all know agriculture is going through a period of change and challenges. Be it Brexit and the uncertainty this brings, or the...

During the first few weeks of life, calves are unable to eat enough dry feed to meet their energy requirements and are almost entirely...

With the good grass growth conditions this year in stark contrast to the drought of last summer, many farmers have the issue of too much...

I find the NJ Phillips guns really great. I use them for dosing dairy cows, their offspring and other groups of cattle. Their frame is...

As the days shorten, thoughts turn to cattle housing although growing numbers are successfully prolonging the grazing season maximising...

With UK land at a premium the sheep industry certainly in more lowland flocks has intensified. Reliance on pastures grazed only by sheep...

Datamars are launching the new S3 Weigh Scale Indicator from Tru-Test. Simple to use, easy to read and features Bluetooth connectivity,...

Tissue tag sampling is a widespread means of obtaining DNA samples. Often determining parentage, this technology is also enhancing...

EAR tagging suckled calves single handed has been made a simpler and safer job by Tobermore producer Derek McKinney. “Like most working...

Natalie Ingman assists her father who farm near Mold in North Wales and have used an NJ Phillips 25ml Repeater Injector for over five...

With EID tagging in sheep compulsory and around the corner in 2020 for cattle, many producers already utilise EID tag reading. Inadequate...

Livestock producers in the UK face a range of common endemic and the occasional exotic disease danger. Commonly these can include...

Andrew and Teresa Cotton farm at High Ridges farm in Staffordshire and run a herd of 100 Montbeliarde dairy cows with approximately 50...

Builder Ally Baird admits to being a bit of a perfectionist and since he first got his eye on Zwartble sheep he has applied these...