Improving feed utilisation in winter diets

Feed utilisation refers to how efficiently animals convert the feed they consume into productive outputs such as body weight gain

Analysing silage quality is crucial to understanding its fibre, energy and protein content so you can effectively balance the diet to achieve optimum health and performance.

It’s been a drastically different year this year, as we catch up with farms across the country. The west seems to have had a brilliant year of grass growth, and in fact, many areas of the midlands are reporting the same. 

As we move east across the country, it was a far more difficult year in terms of grass growth due to a lack of rainfall, with some localised pockets experiencing severe soil moisture deficits.