Focus on fertility and forage lifts dairy cow performance

摘要

Young farmer James Evans has turned his family dairy business around by driving a vision based on focus, fertility and forage.In the past five years, through focusing on the three "Fs", the team at Priddbwll Mawr farm, in Oswestry, has been able to increase milk yields from 8,990 to 11,600 litres, decrease the calving interval by 40 days and reduce the age at first calving by more than four months.This has all been achieved while expanding the herd from 308 to 580 cows.Mr Evans said: "Back in 2012, we were pretty middle of the road, to be honest. We would sort of graze cows four or five months of the year and then we would feed them really hard in the winter. We couldn't get them in calf because we were grazing too hard.