The poor weather continues with some heavy rain disrupting outside pop-festivals and harvest alike. With the shelter from the rain the housed conditions are slightly poorer than the grazing conditions…
AdminAugust 7, 2023
Despite the poor weather and its impact on harvest and holidays there is still heat stress about. Although we are having quite a lot of rain the underlying seasonal temperatures…
AdminJuly 31, 2023
Despite the poor weather and its impact on harvest and holidays there is still heat stress about. Although we are having quite a lot of rain the underlying seasonal temperatures…
AdminJuly 31, 2023
The weekly average figures suggest that grazing cows on most of our monitor farms will have suffered very little heat stress in the past week due to a combination of…
AdminJuly 24, 2023
The cooler weather has continued in the past week and we have had some much needed rain. However the weather has stayed quite warm and the humidity has risen so…
AdminJuly 24, 2023
A recent topic of conversation in my inbox has been the effect of giving cows a choice over access to grazing during heat stress periods. Several monitor farmers have commented…
AdminJuly 21, 2023
The cool wet weather reduced heat stress risks considerably and the rain has benefitted both grazing and silage crops. The Berkshire site suffered the most heat stress and high humidity…
AdminJuly 17, 2023
The weather in the past week has been much cooler with more cloud cover. Farms showed low levels of heat stress with small milk yield losses. However there was still…
AdminJuly 17, 2023
The cooler weather continued through the start of last week but then got hotter on Friday and through the weekend before easing off again yesterday. The hottest days were generally…
AdminJuly 12, 2023
