Made for the Milking Herd High-yielding cows lose minerals with every litre of milk. Sodium, magnesium and trace elements leave faster than pasture replaces them, and the first signs are not dramatic: a slight drop in intake, slower return to oestrus, more lameness than the year before. A block in ...

A Mid-Width Tape for Mixed Stock Sheep respect a fence they can see; cattle respect a fence that holds when leaned on. A 36 mm tape sits between the narrow 12 mm ribbon and the heavy 40 mm horse tape, giving visibility to sheep and enough tensile strength for cattle that test the line. Conductors ...

Winter Watering Without a Single Watt Farms in cold regions spend a surprising amount of the working day chopping ice. The Thermo range was developed to end that chore: a double-skinned polyethylene trough that keeps water open down to about -30 C with no element, no thermostat and no power cable to ...

Colour-Coded Dipping Cups for Cleaner Parlour Work Every dairy has a pre-milking routine and a post-milking routine, and mixing them up is a hygiene failure that is easy to make and hard to spot. Colour coding the cups solves it at almost no cost. Material choice The cap is moulded in PP for ...