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In just its fi rst year, UK Dairy Day has fi rmly cemented itself as a national, specialist dairy show for livestock and trade stand exhibitors and farmers looking for innovative, thought provoking opportunities to expand and enhance their businesses. Opening the event was outgoing Holstein UK chairman John Edge who told visitors that “UK Dairy Day was born as a result of feedback from the membership


requesting the Society organise an industry specifi c autumn dairy event, which focuses on all the facets of milk production; from milk buyers to feeding through to hygiene and breeding, to management and fi nancial advice.”


The theme of the event was ‘Helping increase


profi ts’ and kick starting the seminars in support of dairy producers in this challenging and often volatile market place, was NFU dairy board chairman Rob Harrison.


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coverage from UK Dairy Day Seminars in December’s Journal


Mr Harrison said that although global dairy commodity prices had slumped by 45% since February and UK farmgate prices had also fallen, by an average of 20%, global milk supply has increased by 5% and demand by 2%. “The full extent of the global price drop has not completely fi ltered through into UK markets and our prices are still quite competitive compared to the rest of Europe. “We want to see processors offering


more contracts to farmers to help them manage volatility, with different formulas and fi xed prices as possible solutions.”


New product launches for Holstein UK, CIS and CDI


Holstein UK’s newly launched Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reports, provided in conjunction with CIS and CDI, will help dairy farmers identify top and bottom performers within their herds and provide an easily understood ready- reckoner of success, according to acting general manager Charlotte Rose. “The KPI reports are the fi rst product of their type to combine key cow health, productivity, pedigree and fertility data in one easy to use report.


“The new KPIs will enable dairy farmers to quickly identify those animals and families which are delivering on going improvement in all aspects of herd profi tability, as well as weeding out those not currently meeting expectations,” she explained. “The report is made up of a number of key parts, with the fi rst being the pedigree information, detailing the genetic summary of the current heifer crop, alongside classifi cation information and crucially, an inbreeding coeffi cient, which will help make more strategic breeding decisions.”


Alongside this will be a production report which will be broken down in to sections, listing herd productivity and somatic cell count scores, nutrition and health monitoring and herd fertility. “All of these areas are vital to herd profi tability and being able to quickly identify improvements or issues allows farmers to take much better control of their herds. “Additionally, the KPIs will rank herds according to national averages and show trends within the herd from one year to the next and highlight areas for attention,” added Ms Rose.


Family Reports


Operating in tandem with these KPIs will be the newly released Family Reports feature, which will make it much simpler for breeders to identify the top performing family lines in their herds and hence make more informed breeding decisions.


By combining pedigree data held by Holstein UK and the CDI with productivity information held by CIS, the ‘Family Reports’ enable breeders to quickly identify which family lines are producing the best performing cows on a range of criteria, including yield, fertility and


LEFT NFU’s Rob Harrison told visitors to the breakfast seminar that the NFU wants to see


processors offering more contracts to farmers to help them manage volatility, with different formulas and fi xed prices as possible solutions.


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