Merry Christmas Everyone! It's been a busy year as ever, our fantastic team have worked hard caring for our cows and they have produced around 5.5 million litres of milk and reared 675 calves! Our farm supplies enough milk for almost 80,000 people! Thanks to our staff and village
End of First Cycle of Serving
Total served = 710/808 = 87%
Cows @ 40d VWP = 455/503 = 90%
Heifers = 190/192 = 99%
I would always like to see cows as high as possible but 90% is my minimum acceptable level for "good" so overall I'm pretty chuffed. #kpis #benchmarking #teamdairy
End of day 5 of serving
Total served = 173
Eligible to serve = 806 (Nil VWP)
Percent served = 21%
Percent days = 24%
Submission = 90.5%
#breeding24 #benchmarking #kpis #teamdairy
Matt Ford retweeted
It has been 400 days of merciless bloodshed in Gaza since Oct. 7.
According to the United Nations and Reuters — The age group with the most deaths is 5-9 year olds. Let that sink in.
Next is 10-14 year olds.
Next is 0-4 year olds.
44% of the deaths so far are children.
It is sick.
The US sent the money, and the weapons. Biden, Harris, and the DNC have blood on their hands.
It must stop now.
I wonder how much this talk of APR change has triggered succession discussions in farming families? Lots of very busy accountants and lawyers!
Second calved Albion cow affectionately nicknamed Mouse by the team, she's producing about 35 litres a day #BlueAlbion
End of week 8 of calving
Calved = 582
Left to calve = 79
Calves on milk = 376
Cows are still grazing by day for another week or so, starting to look ahead to breeding season again now
#benchmark #TeamDairy
Six weeks into the calving block and we've calved 518, almost 80% of total block. Pretty much on par with last year. Would be nice to tighten a bit further to hit the 85% mark, always good to have a challenge!
Matt Ford retweeted
Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.
Matt Ford retweeted
Following the detection of further cases of bluetongue virus BTV-3, the Restricted Zone in Kent has been extended to now include all of Kent, East Sussex and part of Greater London. See gov.uk/bluetongue for more info. @NFUtweets
The latest Albion heifer to arrive, lovely blue markings. This one's a Speckles Isaiah daughter from a Wunderino fleckvieh cow. #AlbionCattle #BlueAlbion @RBSTrarebreeds
