Production drops, compromised performance and negative impact on fertility likely when consuming mycotoxin-contaminated feed
Production drops, compromised performance and negative impact on fertility likely when consuming mycotoxin-contaminated feed
Dirk Van Kessel joins UFAC-UK in a new position created to build on upcoming and existing market opportunities across Europe
Dairy cows not only have the potential to experience heat stress but can also be affected by the cold. Fortunately, there are ways to minimise the effects of cold stress on your herd this Winter.
A palm-free diet sees yield improvements and components maintained for Arla regenerative pilot farm
In an age of climate crisis, find out how UFAC’s non-digestible mycotoxin binder, mycotrap, can provide protection against mycotoxins, support fertility and improve the overall health status of livestock.
Dairy farmers can increase sustainability practices and reduce their carbon footprint with envirolac, the palm-free fat supplement proven to increase milk yields and quality.
Using a variety of UFAC products, Dairy farmers can support freshly calved cows during critical periods, ensuring maximum performance and promoting recovery after birth.
UFAC-UK has completed a major upgrade to its unique UK manufacturing facility
Dairy producers looking to make best use of grazed grass through the spring and summer, must consider balanced oil supplementation
David Turnbull re-joins business at next stage of exciting development plans
In an age of climate crisis, find out how UFAC’s non-digestible mycotoxin binder, mycotrap, can provide protection against mycotoxins, support fertility and improve the overall health status of livestock.
Dairy farmers can increase sustainability practices and reduce their carbon footprint with envirolac, the palm-free fat supplement proven to increase milk yields and quality.
Using a variety of UFAC products, Dairy farmers can support freshly calved cows during critical periods, ensuring maximum performance and promoting recovery after birth.
As the dry weather period continues across the UK, it’s not only heat stress that our industry needs to contend with. According to the latest report by GrassWatch, grass growth rates are falling and are well below the last 6-year average.
It is anticipated UK agriculture will come under the spotlight at COP26, which is why it is important to shout about the good work the dairy industry is doing to reduce emissions from what is already quite a low level.
A high energy fat supplement is one of the key components of the bull ration that has brought pedigree Limousin breeder Ian and Wendy Callion’s season to a head, with the achievement of top price at the British Limousin Cattle Society’s summer sale at Borderway Mart…
With the drastic fall in air pollution during the COVID-19 lockdown, while farming has effectively ‘carried on as normal’, the public perception is changing and farming is increasingly being seen as part of the solution to mitigating climate change, rather than the biggest contributor.
“With plenty of forage on most farms this year of variable quality, it provides an ideal opportunity to increase margins by ensuring optimal DMI of available forages, hence increased milk from forage.”
Production drops and compromised performance will be inevitable if dairy farmers fail to address the impact of mycotoxin contamination in animal feeds, warns nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
The health benefits of feeding omega-3 fatty acids are widely accepted in many species, and with research into equine diets increasing, fatty acids are recognised as a positive source of dietary energy for horses, and the nutritional advantages are indisputable.
With many dairy units now looking to turn out cows as soon as possible to help boost margins, farmers should be focused on ensuring cows perform to their optimum to get best returns, rather than cutting corners, urges nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
Environmental impacts and difficulties of sourcing soybean meal and fishmeal for use in pig feeds can be mitigated with a speciality vegetable protein concentrate, providing an effective, viable and sustainable alternative for pig diets.
With some retailers already banning the use of palm oil and its derivatives in feeds for their dairy producers, farmers must seek alternative options to help maintain productivity in herds without them, warns nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
Latest Trouw Nutrition silage watch indicators suggest dairy farmers have an ideal opportunity to increase milk margins by applying precision feeding, according to nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
The promotion of efficient use of grass by precision feeding can help dairy producers increase milk from forage, with high purchased feed prices putting pressure on margins, explains nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
Rising purchased feed costs are providing an ideal opportunity to increase margins, by ensuring optimal DMI of available forages, therefore increasing milk from forage, explains nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
As part of having a sustainable UK beef industry, it is critical that beef production maximises feed conversion efficiency (FCE), while enhancing fertility and health and using environmentally responsible and sustainable feeds, explains nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
With lambing season drawing to a close across most of the country, focus now moves to on-going ewe management, to maintain ewe health, protein and energy levels during the critical post-lambing period.
AMSTERDAM – 4th February 2021 – Corbion, the global market leader in algae ingredients for use in animal feed, announces the expansion of AlgaPrime™ DHA to animal feed markets in the UK and Ireland. AlgaPrime DHA is a clean and sustainable source of omega-3s produced using algae.
The increased use of palm-based C16 fatty acids in biofuel production, combined with rising shipping costs from the Far East, is putting extreme price pressure on its use as a fat supplement in dairy diets, but efficiency measures can help mitigate cost rises, according to nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK.
UK nutritional supplement manufacturer and supplier to the animal feed industry, UFAC-UK has appointed Nigel Bateson to the role of National Sales Manager as part of a client-focused corporate restructuring that is transforming the customer-supplier dynamic.
Balancing the correct choice of energy sources and buffer feeding will be key to optimising dairy herd productivity, advises nutritional supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK, in the light of seasonal lower grass yields.
There is considerable interest in feeding products containing omega 3 oils to dairy cows. But the message from Mike Chown of UFAC UK is make sure you choose the right product as there are big differences between omega 3 sources.
UFAC UK recently said goodbye to Syd Blenkharn who has been distributing our products for over 25 years, serving farmers in Cumbria and Lancashire. Syd has seen the highs and lows of the farming community, but has enjoyed massive support from his customers throughout these times.
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