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Ulster Grassland Society Annual Conference 31st January 2012 ‘Producing for a changing market’

Farming enterprises

Improving milk compositional quality Breeding Feeding Reducing cell counts

Heifer rearing 2 year old calving Size and weight targets

Dry cow management Individual cow feeding

Research

Changes in UK milk yield (litres/cow/year) But… milk from forage has decreased by 24% in the last 10 years

Tackling the decline in milk from forage Farmers Feed to yield Nutritionists Compliment rather than replace forage Geneticists

Breeding Breed to suit your system

Breeding Breed a more efficient cow

Breeding Breed an easier managed cow With good locomotion scoring?

Feed conversion ratios kg of DM / kg of carcass Pigs 3.0 Poultry 1.6 Beef 8.5

World markets New ideas New research New technology