Keeping things simple, single handedly

摘要

Shirley Macmillan has been to see the West Midlands and South Wales regional winner for health and fertility in the National Dairy Herd Championships - run by NMR and the RABDF, and sponsored by Deosan - who is in the running for this years Gold Cup.Richard Hayes is the first to admit that low cow numbers and running his farm virtually single handed are the key to maintaining low cell counts and a spot-on calving index. But meticulous husbandry and keeping management simple also play their part in producing a 41,000 cells/ml cell count and 365-day index.