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September 4, 2025

Optimising Production with Alkanuts and Alkablends… Enhancing rumen function to drive herd-wide efficiency and productivity.

Dan Ashworth manages a herd based near Clitheroe, Lancashire where 120 cows are milked through a robotic system and 50 cows through the parlour. Shortly,…

September 4, 2025

AlkaProStar Steps into The Breach… An alternative buffer to maintain winter milk and solids through optimal rumen function.

Things don’t always go to plan. George Watts is a firm advocate of making Alkalage to feed to his 230 cow autumn block calving herd…

September 4, 2025

Consistency Over Cost… Why Alkafibre has proved the smart choice.

Don’t dismiss reliable bought in feeds for seemingly cheaper homegrown forages, says Andrew Barraclough. “While our objective is to run a profitable dairy farming business…

September 4, 2025

Achieving Herd Goals… Supporting Rumen Function with Alkaline Feed for Yield, Health and Fertility.

Increasing milk from forage and tightening the calving pattern are amongst Tom and Ruth Clapham’s priorities after taking up a full joint venture contract farming…

September 4, 2025

Maintaining Rumen Function for Optimum Herd Health and Performance

Introducing Alkasystems technology – a cost efficient solution Maintaining rumen function and efficiency must be number one priority when feeding cattle if dairy producers are…

August 6, 2025

Cutting Protein Import Costs and Making more From Home-Grown Feeds…

Cutting costs by making more from homegrown feeds is amongst Jack Garrett’s priorities and adding Home n’ Dry to the strategy is certainly helping him…

April 8, 2025

The Turnout Transition……How to Get It Right!

Turnout should be a gradual process - a slow transition to allow the rumen bugs to adapt to the changing diet, avoid sub-acute acidosis and…

March 31, 2025

Introducing Our Hosts – Home Farm Open Day …

With just a few days to go until the Home Farm Open Day, we would like to formally introduce our hosts, David Shuttleworth family. Husband…

February 13, 2025

AlkaProStar® steps into the breach…

AlkaProStar® is an alternative buffering option to maintaining winter milk and solids through optimal rumen function. Things don’t always go to plan. George Watts…

January 23, 2025

“Performance is Optimised with Alkafinisher….”

Case Study – James Lees, North Yorkshire James Lees has made a radical change to his lamb finishing enterprise after successfully introducing alkasystems technology. Potential…

January 22, 2025

Improve nutrient & feed efficiency when finishing lambs with Alkanuts®…

Lamb finishing at the turn of the year is admittedly always a challenge – achieving a balance between feeding concentrate to achieve a respectable finish…

January 21, 2025

Laund Farm Trial – AlkaFinisher vs Conventional Compound

Introducing an alka-based concentrate, Dugdale Nutrition’s AlkaFinisher, to a diet fed to a mix of finishing lambs reduced days to slaughter by 8%, there were…

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Optimising Production with Alkanuts and Alkablends… Enhancing rumen function to drive herd-wide efficiency and productivity.

AlkaProStar Steps into The Breach… An alternative buffer to maintain winter milk and solids through optimal rumen function.

Consistency Over Cost… Why Alkafibre has proved the smart choice.

Achieving Herd Goals… Supporting Rumen Function with Alkaline Feed for Yield, Health and Fertility.

Maintaining Rumen Function for Optimum Herd Health and Performance

Cutting Protein Import Costs and Making more From Home-Grown Feeds…

The Turnout Transition……How to Get It Right!

Introducing Our Hosts – Home Farm Open Day …

AlkaProStar® steps into the breach…

“Performance is Optimised with Alkafinisher….”

Improve nutrient & feed efficiency when finishing lambs with Alkanuts®…

Laund Farm Trial – AlkaFinisher vs Conventional Compound

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