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The UkrLandFarming Group of companies plans to establish a livestock cluster specializing in breeding meat cows in Zhytomyr region. This is informed by Volodymyr Levkivsky, the Head of Polissya cluster of UkrLandFarming. «We plan to increase the number of beef herd by at least 1.5−2 thou. heads by purchasing young stock for fattening,» he said. Now the total numb...

Milk prices — and therefore farm returns — have improved sharply over the past year but higher feed costs pose a risk, according to new analysis. The Dairy Costings Focus from Kingshay, an independent dairy specialist, reveals that average margins over purchased feed increased from 16.83p/litre last year to 21.21p/litre in the year to March 20...

Since high productive cows depend highly on the rumen efficiency, every challenge, such as heat stress, has to be compensated by (nutritional) management. One of the nutritional solutions can be found in an effective rumen buffer supplement. Different factors can bring a healthy rumen into a stressful condition. However, a too low drop in rumen pH which causes rumen acidosis, has the biggest impact. Rumen acidosis...