Small changes, big benefits
Welsh dairy farmer Andrew Thomas says that making small changes to his transition cow management is delivering dividends in terms of cow health, performance and productivity.
Transition cow management views
We spoke to three independent experts about transition cow management.
Targets for your transition
Using data from its Transition Management System, Premier Nutrition has developed a series of key targets for transition including ‘alarm rates’ when action is urgently called for.
System aids performance
Premier Nutrition’s Transition Management System is helping farmers and feed advisers improve cow health and production by evaluating performance during the transition period (30 days pre-calving to 30 days post-calving).
Monitoring helps improve transition management
The Roundelm Herd, based in Elmore, Gloucestershire, is achieving increased fertility rates and finding it easier to manage transition as a result of installing the SenseHub herd monitoring system from Allflex Livestock Intelligence.
Data drives dry cow facility move
‘The cow is the customer’, believes farmer Stephen Cope, of Bawhill Farm at Adderley, Shropshire. This philosophy is what has led Stephen Cope to take a holistic, integrated and data-driven approach to running his herd.