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www.barentz.com/animal-nutrition Less than 6 months ago the UK dairy industry was expecting


increasing UK and EU milk production to put downward pressure on milk price but the situation has changed very quickly with some UK milk buyers announcing price increases of up to 1.5 ppl for August and September. AHDB Dairy reports an estimate of GB milk deliveries based on data provided by the largest milk buyers covering approximately 75% of volumes in GB weekly. The reports for the last 3 weeks (up to 11 August 2018) show that milk deliveries are running between 0.8% and 1.2% lower than last year. The drought period has been followed by widespread rain but if the after-effects continue to weaken supply as expected, the UK farm gate price should be well over 30ppl by the start of winter. As the reader might imagine, a lot of consultancy over the past 2


to 3 months has been spent finding ways to mitigate the effect of the weather. The impact of heat stress on cow performance and fertility is well documented and although it is not often that we consider temperature and humidity to be limiting factors in UK milk production, hot weather during the summer months becoming increasingly likely means that producers need to have heat stress management strategies ready.


Due to the lack of grazing, most of the herds we work with were


feeding full ‘winter’ diets or at least significant amounts of buffer from late June / early July, which followed a long winter with many herds not turning out to grass until early May, so in effect only benefiting from 6 weeks of good grazing. Yields of 1st


cut have been variable and, Producers may be able to extend grazing for some classes of


livestock and/or make an Autumn cut of grass silage. Whilst not the highest quality, clamping up to 1t/acre of additional dry matter will certainly be critical winter forage for some livestock producers.


FEED COMPOUNDER SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 PAGE 15 where 2nd cut has been made, yields have been lower than normal.


Some farms have been able to take wheat crops as wholecrop to help fill clamps and, as already mentioned, maize yields are likely to be compromised. My colleagues and I are busy on farm assessing forage stocks and livestock numbers and therefore developing strategies to manage forage shortfalls for the next 12 – 18 months until forage stocks can hopefully be replenished. Since the wide-spread rain, grass has started to respond to moisture - see graph below for 2018 grass growth compared with previous years:


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