Advice

Goal Setting For Successful Farming

To survive and thrive in agriculture today, you have to bring a business approach to farming. One practice that’s common in the business world, but which is often ignored in the livestock industry, is goal setting.

Better raising of pasture-fed lambs

Realising the genetic potential of your lambs is very dependent on their efficiently converting feed to liveweight gain. This efficiency is underpinned by a good maternal environment during pregnancy followed by astute management during the all-important milk and pasture feeding of lambs pre- and post-weaning.

Autumn Issues - Drenching at Weaning

As weaning fast approaches it is a good chance to review the animal health challenges from the previous years and make a plan for this season. Each year there are a handful of animal health issues that raise their head on a regular basis and affect lamb growth rates

Getting your lambs off to a fast start

If we are serious about increasing the efficiency and sustainability of our operations, then performance recording and benchmarking to identify opportunity are extremely valuable.