Ignore the potential of grass at your peril
	THERE are 16 million farmable or manageable acres of grassland in the UK - a figure that should highlight to everyone, the importance that this crop represents to today's livestock farmers.

	Improve quality with a buffer feed system
	WITH July having now arrived, most of us will assume that summer, if not quite here already will, at the very least, be just around the corner.

Nature’s reminder the seasons are moving

EVEN though persistent rainfall and overnight frosts are still fresh in the mind, nature has provided us all with a few timely reminders that the calendar is steadily on the move.

	The cow comes first
	WELL over 250 farmers attended a number of dairy seminars last month with venues throughout Devon and Cornwall, hosted by animal feed compounders Harpers Home Mix Ltd, and with a theme of 'The Economics of Feeding Cows at Grass''.

Better quality forage the best way forward

THIS time last year, I quoted one or two weather predictions for the summer of 2007 and why, because we had been largely promised another summer in line with that of 2006, we should, in addition to buying Factor 35 by the lorry load, be considering growing more forage crops in order to get us all through what was going to be a trying time indeed.