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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
Alka activity in Belgium and Southern Netherlands
At the end of October, International Agents Paul and Alan Sayle spent 3 days in various regions of Belgium and Southern Netherlands. L-R Alan Sayle,…
Introducing an alkaline feed material to support rumen function is providing the Clapham’s with confidence they will be able to achieve their immediate goals, before moving on to the next…
Increasing milk from forage and tightening the calving pattern are amongst Tom and Ruth Clapham’s priorities as they settle in to jointly manage a 400-cow…
“Alkalage Is a Good Buffer & Consistent…” Says Shaun Hartley
If you’ve still some whole crop to harvest it’s not too late to think about making Alkalage, an alternative high starch, high protein, alkaline forage…
Alkalage provides significant health improvements for David Shuttleworth’s 500-cow flying Holstein herd averaging 10,000 litres…
Introducing Alkalage to a PMR diet has resulted in significant health improvements for David Shuttleworth’s 500-cow flying Holstein herd averaging 10,000 litres. “Cow health has…
Alkalage reduces the possible challenges of a high starch diet and provides added protein…
This year’s prolonged winter has turned plans for future forage supplies inside out and upside down. However, for those with cereal or maize crops in…