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Beef

• Beef symposium

  28/02/2013
  The International Beef Symposium was held over two days at the beginning of October in Barcelona with myself and Shona Young from the Midhurst practice lucky enough to attend...

• Heifer Integration-managing the future of your herd!

  26/11/2012
  The cost or more appropriately the value of bringing heifer replacements into your herd may constantly be under scrutiny...

• Outcomes of 560 Bull Breeding Examinations performed in the United Kingdom

  30/08/2012
  by Westpoint Vet Alex Walters ...

• Calf Scour

  21/07/2012
  When a calf is born it does not have a fully developed immune system and is vulnerable to infection and disease...

• Planning For Efficient Suckler Cow Feed Management This Winter?

  02/11/2011
  As housing looms and with winter also rapidly approaching our attention is drawn to efficiency of feeding management to maximise productivity and profitability of the suckler herd...

• "High Health” is key to production!

  18/04/2011
  For Angus Stovold, Lydling Farm having a high health status has always been top of his priority list...

• New Kent Unit’s start-up challenges!

  01/10/2010
  Phillip Boyd of Wissenden Lodge Farm, Ashford in Kent currently farms 100 head of mixed continental and British beef cattle on a single suckle system, calving in a tight spring block and he writes...

• Beef ‘PIP’ is a Real Grower!

  21/03/2010
  The Westpoint Prime Beef Team have been working hard with beef producers across the South to ensure that their ‘Beef Profit Improvement Plans’ are up and running in early 2010...