Advanced Ruminant Nutrition

23/04/2026

🇩🇰 Denmark Study Tour

Last week, the team headed over to Denmark for a study tour, kindly hosted by Vilofoss.

The main focus was transition cows, but it was also a great chance to see how Danish farms are run day-to-day and pick up some ideas around herd health. We visited a range of farms, milking between 480 and 970 Jersey cows.

What stood out were the number of farms in Denmark using X-Zelit asa key tool for transition management. One unit, have used it for over 10 years due to its effectiveness and simplicity.

If you’d like to hear more insights from the trip, drop us a message with your email and we’ll add you to the list.

Thanks to John Fish and the team at Vilofoss😃

21/04/2026

🐄 The Advanced Heifer Team are at the Calf Action Conference at Hartpury College today.

With a series of workshops and open discussion it's set to be an informative day.

If you’re attending, come and say hello at our stand, we’d love to chat about how we can help add real value to your business.

14/04/2026

🐄 Our Heifer Rearing Manager Liz Lunn (née Newman) will be at Mains of Boquhan on the 30th April to talk about Colostrum Management, alongside herd manager Leanne Bertram and Connie Yates from Kersia.

Details below if you'd like to book a place on this Scottish Women in Dairy course.

🐄 Colostrum Management & Calf Hygiene Course 🐄

Join us for an informative and practical session focused on improving calf health, growth, and early-life management.

📍 Mains of Boquhan, Kippen, Stirling, FK8 3JQ
📅 Thursday 30th April
🕙 10am – 2pm
🥪 Lunch provided

👩‍🌾 Learn from:
• Leanne Bertram – Herd Manager
• Liz Lunn (Newman) – Advanced Ruminant Nutrition
• Connie Yates – Kersia

This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on knowledge and take away practical tips to improve colostrum management and calf hygiene on your farm.

👉 Click on our Eventbrite link to register

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raising-healthy-calves-colostrum-management-and-hygiene-course-tickets-1987135081521?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/04/2026

🐄 You may have seen Emma Wells alongside Ben Gibbons from Catteralls Farm in this month's Dairy Farmer Magazine.

She talks about using our comprehensive live data & costings system alongside cow and nutritional knowledge to drive continual improvements to improve herd performance.

You can read more on our website, send us a message - or follow the link in our story if you'd like to read the full article.

27/03/2026

🐄 Professor Geoffrey Dahl joined us from the USA this week to give an insight into his latest research into heat stress.

Some key points included:-

🐮Heat stress doesn't just impact on the milking herd
🐮Dry cows exhibit carryover effects of heat stress into early lactation
🐮In utero heat stress reduces passive immune transfer regardless of colostrum source
🐮The affects extended to the heifer calf of a heat stressed cow include poorer health and less milk
🐮Studies have shown that cows can lose up to 4 litres per day due to heat stress

On a more practical level there were also some good discussions about the benefits of soaking cows with water rather than misting and considering drawing clean air into sheds where we have fans.

If you'd like to find out more you can sign up to our newsletter - just send us a message on the link below 😀

Thanks to Carolina from Phibro Animal Health for organising the talks and to the hosts of our farm walk Richard and Rachael Petherick.

24/03/2026

🐄 In this month's British Dairying we hear from Gary Swires and Richard Bainbridge talk about how a joined up approach has helped drive milk yield and quality improvements.

You can read the full article on our website - link in the comments...

20/03/2026

🐄Farm Walk at Aldercombe Barton Farm, Bude, 23rd March

Dairy farmers across the Southwest are invited to join us for a farm walk this Monday, hosted by the Advanced Nutrition team. We’re pleased to welcome Professor Geoffrey Dahl (Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida) as our guest.

After the walk, we’ll head to The New Inn, Kilkhampton for lunch, followed by an insightful session with Professor Dahl on the latest research into heat stress and a chance to ask your questions.

Just click through to book your free place.

20/03/2026

🐄 Our Head of Technical, Will Tulley was in Barcelona this week for the Zinpro Fuel the Rumen First Conference.

The talk topics were focused around understanding the tools available to better balance ruminant diets to optimise milk production, reduce metabolic diseases and improve sustainability through improved nitrogen efficiency. Some key takeaways included weighing cows in transition and asking different questions about BCS.

Thanks to our hosts Jonathan Huxtable and Luis de Veiga from Zinpro 😀

And If you'd like to find out more - just send us a message.

10/03/2026

🐄Dairy Farmers in the Southwest you are invited to...

Farm Walk & Heat Stress Meeting with Professor Dahl from the University of Florida in association with Advanced Ruminant Nutrition and Phibro Animal Health Europe

Monday 23rd March, 11am - 2pm.
11am Farm Walk - Aldercombe Barton Farm, Bude
Followed by lunch at a presentation at the New Inn Kilkhampton, EX23 9QN

Prof. Dahl joins us from the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Florida. He'll be taking us through his research on production and health through heat stress abatement. With over 180 peer reviewed papers and awards in the field we look forward to welcoming him on farm and hearing some valuable insights.

To register your free place, please click the link in the comments.

06/03/2026

05/03/2026

🐄 Last month Will Tulley spoke at DairyTech as part of the line up in the Innovation Hub.

If you didn't get to see Will - we've provided a summary of his talk which centred around how using on-farm data can guide smarter nutrition decisions and help cows reach their full potential.

https://www.arn-ltd.co.uk/newsroom/latest-news-from-advanced-nutrition/2026/03/03/dairytech-insights/

As always if there's anything you'd like to know further on the topic or how we can help your herd - please just send us a message.😀