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- 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
Outwintering systems based on forage brassicas for replacement dairy heifers
Anticipated deliverables for dairy farmers
A two year study that evaluated the performance of replacement dairy heifers either housed or out-wintered on forage brassicas (stubble turnips and kale/rape hybrid) in Shropshire.
This report describes an experiment to evaluate the performance of in-calf dairy heifers either housed and fed silage or out-wintered on strip grazed stubble turnips with the target to achieve a daily live weight gain (DLWG) of 0.7 to 0.8kg. The study commenced on 21/11/07 and involved 28 in-calf dairy heifers aged 21.8 months old with a mean weight of 476kg. Calving performance and 305 day lactation yields were subsequently recorded.
Final report available to download soon