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Promar News

   
Profit With Promar How will future milk and feed prices affect your business?
All systems go for extra milk After a prolonged period of low milk prices, at last we have a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Global demand for dairy products is increasing while supply is static. The basic rules of economics apply and commodity prices for milk powders and butterfat are rising, and the good news is these increases are slowly finding their way down to the farm gate...
Rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic For the first time for several years there is a mood of optimism surrounding the outlook for milk prices with several increases having been announced, and with prospects for more in the pipeline. But the harsh truth is that the increases delivered so far, rather than offering a prospect of improved fortunes for dairy farmers are about as much good as re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...

Grazing Monitor

   
Not much grass about what is there... is good ! Promar Senior Consultant Andrew Ha farmers keen to get cows out to grass....
Plan turnout carefully to make most of limited grazing Promar Consultant Andrew Hawkins considers the prospects for turnout and gives some timely management advice to dairy farmers...
Availability Palatibility Digestibility AVAILABILITY, PALATABILITY, DIGESTIBILITY – THE THREE GOLDEN RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL GRAZING...
Should I graze or should I cut now ? Grazing Monitor, the popular feature combining data on grass growth rates and herbage quality with expert analysis and insights from contributor farmers, is returning for another year..

NB: Grazing Monitor for 2007 is now finished, it will start up again in Spring 2008

Promar Standard

   
Promar Standard February 2007 Articles on: -Cutting the fertiliser bill, -Focus on NVZ's, -Dont let mastistis eat away at margins, -Farm partnerships
Promar Standard August 2007 Articles : -Time to Increase Yields? -Developing Good Habits, -Focus on labour and performance, -Are Culls killing your business? -Focusing on simple sustem pays
Promar Standard April 2007 Articles on: -Shocking cows, -Sprucing up your parlour, -Focus on Machinery, -Boosting profits is not rocket science, -Time to consider cow leasing