Feeding low-potassium silage to autumn-calving cows during the transition period has helped a Carmarthenshire dairy farmer cut the incidence of milk fever to 5% from a peak of 20%. Iwan Francis has spent the past two years honing transition management at Nantglas Farm, Talog, where he milks 220 cows in a split block-calving system. He […]
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