DairyCo
Welcome to DairyCo
Research & Development
- Breeding & Genetics
- Environment
- Health & Welfare
- Grass & Forage
- Nutrition
- Production Systems
- Completed Projects
- Across breed evaluations
- All weather cow tracks
- Calving Ease
- Crop Protection Priorities for forage and feed crops in light of proposed EU pesticide regulations and other changes
- DairyCo mobility score
- Desktop review of Greenhouse Gases
- Expanding Indices
- GR Micro test for ParaTB (08/09)
- Human resources templates
- Impact of bio-fuels on dairy feeding
- Labour efficiency report
- Labour productivity
- LINK Woodchip pads
- LISA Lupins
- Minimising slurry pooling in dairy housing
- Modelling of Greenhouse Gases
- Muck and Slurry on Clover swards
- Muscling on Holsteins
- Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) tests for farmyard manures
- Opportunites for new forage species
- Outwintering systems based on forage brassicas for replacement dairy heifers
- Para TB Tools
- Rearing options for Holstein bull calves to 12 weeks
- Reduce methane & nitrogen emission (Defra AC0209)
- Reducing heifer wastage in the dairy herd
- Reducing lameness in dairy cattle
- Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions
- Soil stabilisation
- Technology and your business
- Treatment and prevention of foot lameness in cattle
- Advisory Groups
- Research and Development Advisory Forum
- Forum Members
Expanding indices
Anticipated deliverables for dairy farmers
This project aimed to improve welfare, health and sustainability in dairy cows by expanding the selection objectives to include calving ease, udder health and longevity.
DairyCo is currently awaiting the final report.