by Davidsons Animal Feeds | Oct 16, 2026 | Dairy Tech, Nutrition
The Maxwell family at Halket Leathes Farm, Castle Douglas, have embraced a new era of dairy farming with the installation of four GEA R9500 robotic milking systems, replacing their traditional eight-a-side parlour. The move to a guided-entry and guided-exit system has...
by Davidsons Animal Feeds | Oct 6, 2026 | News, Nutrition
Winter feeding is one of the biggest costs on a beef farm, so getting more value from every tonne of forage and every kilogram of concentrate is essential. A well-formulated Total Mixed Ration (TMR) can be an effective way of achieving this, but the starting point is...
by Davidsons Animal Feeds | Aug 10, 2026 | News, Nutrition
Do you weigh your heifers? Here’s the big question: Why don’t we normalise weighing our heifers? Too often, the only target we focus on is age at first calving. But should that really be the only measure of success? Research suggests that the real focus...
by Davidsons Animal Feeds | Jun 23, 2026 | News, Nutrition
For years, the dairy industry has chased one headline target: calving heifers at 22–24 months of age. The logic is clear — earlier calving can boost lifetime productivity, cut rearing costs, and reduce the carbon footprint per litre of milk produced. But as farms race...
by Davidsons Animal Feeds | Jun 22, 2026 | News, Nutrition
Written by Pat Wilson, Business Reporter, Scottish Farmer. Photography by Rob Haining. Townhead farm which sits on outskirts of Dumfries, has rebuilt its dairy enterprise around youngstock – from the first feed of colostrum to calving at 24 months, which in turn has...
by Davidsons Animal Feeds | May 25, 2026 | News, Nutrition
For suckler herds, the pre-bulling period is one of the most critical nutritional windows of the year. A cow’s fertility performance is not determined solely by what happens when the bull goes out, it is shaped by the nutritional management in the weeks leading up to...
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