DairyCo

Tools & Information

DairyCo produces many practical tools that can be used on-farm. These can help decision-making in areas such as housing, youngstock rearing, or dealing with high somatic cell-count cows - on Excel spreadsheets or simple programmes for easy use.

Increasing the competitiveness of milk production is the one area farmers themselves can impact most - DairyCo business tools are provided through the levy - take advantage of this and download one today.

DairyCo Datum - Market Information provides transparency into the dairy markets and assist farmers and their representatives and those involved in the industry to make informed business decisions. Tools include an interactive milk price calculator which will help you compare prices from different milk buyers. Click here for the main Datum pages

DairyCo Farm Improvement Programmes are designed to help improve dairy farm performance and profitability by challenging farmers to set new performance targets and providing information and resources to achieve them.

Milkbench+  is the UK's only fully independent, confidential, and impartial online dairy benchmarking system.

Dairy Wizard allows farmers to look at the cost implications of a range of housing options, look at existing milk routines and parlour options as well as identify adequate slurry storage strategies. It also contains the housing report Housing the 21st Century cow.

DairyCo Energy Calculators are an aid to work out the energy consumption on a typical dairy farm. Each key area accounts for
25 - 30% total electricity consumption with the remainder being used by lights, pumps etc.