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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
Labour productivity
Published 9 September 09
The overall aim of this project was to measure, identify and demonstrate factors affecting dairy farm labour productivity.
The main objectives of the project were:
- to develop a standardised, usable and farm based system for measuring key performance indicators for farm labour productivity across the range of dairy farm activities
- to apply this system to a range of farms together representing he major dairy farming systems and sizes prevalent in the UK and to us the data collected to identify factors responsible for business inefficiencies in farms with less labour productivity
- to use the data collected, in the form of case studies, to demonstrate to dairy farmers the importance of labour productivity. To show how this might be measured and to assist in identifying areas where improvement would significantly benefit thier business
Project completed: August 2008