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Calf Housing and Bovine Respiratory Disease
Dr Natalie Meades: IBERS, KEHub, Aberystwyth University.
January 2024
- Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is one of the main causes of calf mortality in the UK and can be costly to producers through loss of animals, treatment costs and poor animal...
FC - Issue 4 - January - March 2024
Below is the 4th issue of the Farming Connect Technical Publication since the launch of the new programme in April 2023.
It includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters for farmers in Wales, allowing...
FC - Issue 3 - October - December 2023
Below is the 3rd issue of the Farming Connect Technical Publication since the launch of the new programme in April 2023.
It includes easy to digest facts and figures about a range of technical matters for farmers in Wales, allowing...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant farming Part 2: Nutritional strategies for reducing nitrogen excretion and manure management options
Dr Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- Nitrogen utilization efficiency in ruminants is low
- Precision feeding, forage quality, feed processing, shift in nitrogen excretion from urine to faeces and reducing the amount of fermentable organic matter have the best prospects for...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant farming: Part 1 Nutritional strategies to reduce enteric methane emissions
Dr Saba Amir: IBERS, Aberystwyth University.
- In the UK, agriculture contributes a relatively low proportion (about 11% in 2020) to the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHS) emissions but given the global warming potential of these gases more needs to...