Earlier this week I received this video from one of our more Southern monitor farms. The main milking herd of 200 cows is housed in two sheds that share a…
AdminOctober 4, 2023
Despite being October the weather and soils remain warm, the grass is still healthy and growing and cows are still grazing. Some afternoons have been rather warm but with the…
AdminOctober 2, 2023
Although the leaves are beginning to turn on the trees the South of England has been enjoying some rather warm weather. On Monday most monitor farms experienced mild heat stress…
AdminOctober 2, 2023
The weather has cooled markedly and with shorter day length we saw very little heat stress in the grazing groups on our monitor farms. The occasional warm, sunny day generated…
AdminSeptember 25, 2023
The seasons move on and it is now cooler with shorter days. Maize harvest is in full swing in Hampshire. There was very little heat stress on any of our…
AdminSeptember 25, 2023
One of our southern monitor farms kindly shared what the impact of the recent heatwave had been on his farm. Feed intakes were down 6kg of fresh TMR per cow…
AdminSeptember 18, 2023
Last week we had some hot, sunny days and afternoon temperatures in the full sun have been high. Many farms experienced moderate heat stress on Monday. However day length is…
AdminSeptember 18, 2023
The September heat wave continued through the past week and were highest in the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before dipping a little on Wednesday but building again at the end…
AdminSeptember 18, 2023
In our heat stress work we measure temperatures in various ways. The outside sensors positioned in the grazing platform (see picture) have a while slotted cylinder for measuring shade temperature…
AdminSeptember 11, 2023
