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Consultancy

The Centre for Dairy Excellence Ltd (CfDE) is delivering excellence for sustainable farming businesses through Agricultural Consultancy Services.

Introduce new ways of thinking and provide in-depth constructive analysis. Together with a collaborative approach, we can begin to learn more about your farming operation, and understand your goals and needs better. We can then make informed decisions to help improve the productivity and well-being of your herd and maximise your farms profitability. To find out more please contact one of our consultants.

Key consultancy values:

• Independent and Progressive
• Cow Focused
• Sustainability
• Collaborative Approach
• Efficiency and Profitability

Nutrition

Being cow focused this is a core part of our business. This in-depth Nutritional service is provided to all our clients:

  • Ration Formulations
  • Costings
  • Minerals
  • Blend Calculator
  • Profitability Calculator

Dry Cow Management

Our Dry Cow Management plan aims to improve winter-feeding transition, to ensure cows are reaching body condition score targets at calving. This is possible by assessing crop yields and quality. Integral steps to this process are:

  • Regular visits to the wintering platform
  • Regular condition scoring of animals
  • Independent credible measuring of feed quality and quantity
  • Supplementation advice

Farm Analysis Programme

CfDE’s Farm Analysis Programme is used to benchmark your on-farm performance with similar farming operations. Centered around these key areas:

  • Body Condition Score
  • Milk Solid Production
  • Dry Matter Intakes
  • Fertility
  • Farm Working Expenses

Heifer Management

Raising good, well-grown heifers is extremely important for your future herds’ performance. Well-grown heifers are more likely to produce more milk in their first lactation, and get in calf as an R3. Our team of consultants are available to provide expert advice on rearing healthy heifers, which includes nutrition and feeding advice.

Farm Budgets

CfDE provide Farm Budgeting services which include the following but not limited to:

  • ME Budget (scenario analysis)
  • Gross Feed Budgets
  • Financial Budgets
  • 12-month Feed Budget and Costings

Body Condition Scoring

A cow’s body condition score has a major impact on her milk production, reproduction, health, and welfare. Our certified Body Condition Score assessors are able to provide regular condition scoring assessments, to assist you with making key decisions and allowing you to review past management decisions.

Sheep and Beef

Don’t let the name fool you, we also offer a farm consultancy service to sheep and beef farming clients. One of the main areas of support we offer is for winter grazing. We can assist with investigating the viability of different grazing plans and then provide full support in assessing.

Other services

Although we have tried to list the main facets of our business, the dairy and farming industry is constantly changing. Our consultants are evolving as fast as the technology, and new systems are becoming available to us every day.  Please feel free to contact us with any of your business, farming, animal health, or welfare needs and we will try our best to accommodate your needs or point you in the right direction.