What are the dangers of Heat Stress?

What are the dangers of Heat Stress?

Heat Stress. What is it? Do you think it is having an impact on the health and productivity of your cows each summer? And should we even worry about it? To answer the first questions, Heat Stress is experienced by cows when they gain more heat than they can get rid...
6 months of TMS

6 months of TMS

April marks the 6 month anniversary of Davidsons taking the TMS programme (Transitional management system) in house. Over this time Fraser our newest member of the Dairy Tech team, has been busy out on farm using this tool to evaluate how cows transition. This system...
Counting the Cost of Transition

Counting the Cost of Transition

Transition Management. A topic often discussed in the farming press and on farm, but are we truly able to accurately track the effectiveness of transition from the dry pen to the milking herd, in those crucial weeks pre and post calving? With 80% of your cows...
Dairy Road Show Success

Dairy Road Show Success

Managing for Performance, Maximising Forage Utilisation and Cow Health was the key focus for the recent on-farm technical dairy road shows, organised by the Davidsons Dairy Tech team. The technical road shows, focusing on efficient, sustainable dairy farming, were...