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Managing your mental health - Q&A with the Farming Community Network

We're going to place a big focus on mental health in farming across our social channels during 2021. To kick things off, we caught up with the charity Farming Community Network (FCN) to discuss the big mental health challenges facing agriculture.

Top tips to improve early lactation performance

Successful early lactation is key to improving your overall yield and efficiency while also maintaining the health and wellbeing of your cows. Although this transition period can be challenging for your herd.

#MegaFertility - A Dairy Farmer's Story

Over the next 3 months, the #MegaFertility campaign will be sharing the opinions of dairy experts from across the industry to raise awareness of some of the issues around dairy cow fertility. Enjoy the first guest article.

How to maintain your dairy herd's body condition score

Optimum body condition makes your cows more profitable. Here’s the easy way to measure it and - more importantly - maintain it.

#SpeakUpBeHerd: Live well, work well – FarmWell

Our #SpeakUpBeHerd series in collaboration with the Farming Community Network continues, with FCN's Alex Phillimore explaining how beneficial medium and long-term farming business planning can be - and, importantly, what support is available.

The extremes of dairy farming explored

We had a chat with our well-traveled, Global Technical Manager here at Volac Wilmar Feed Ingredients – Dr. Richard Kirkland, to pick his brains on the challenges of dairy farming in some of the more extreme climates around the globe.

Webinar invitation: new findings in fatty acid nutrition

Don't miss our new webinar, exploring the latest research and insight into fatty acid nutrition.

Eight reasons to be a dairy farmer

For those who are thinking about entering the world of dairy farming, we’ve been reflecting on some of the best things about the job.

Understanding contributions to a year of rising feed prices for dairy

British Dairying Feature April Issue: Body Condition Score

There’s nothing new about body condition scoring (BCS); it’s a practice that has been used for many years as an effective barometer of each individual cow’s nutritional needs, health and wellbeing. However, according to a recent survey carried out by Vola