Watch: Dairylink winter feeding webinar

Quality winter feed is top of the list for many farmers producing milk over the winter months and feeding it correctly is vitally important.

Jack Kennedy

7 January 2021

Producing winter milk is very dependent on purchased feed and how to use that feed properly is crucial.

In this Dairylink webinar we discuss feed and forages for producing winter milk on the Wallace farm at Seaforde, Co Down.

Stephen and Hazel Wallace are producing milk for Lakeland Dairies as the herd transitions to compact winter milk production.

We also hear from Dairylink adviserAidan Cushnahan, Lyle Hamilton of Farmgate Nutrition and Alan Hopps from CAFRE on how to benchmark winter feeding performance.

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Watch again: Dairylink webinar on calf rearing

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