Historically, savings made from efficient block-calving outweighed seasonality penalties. Yet many contracts have tempted farms into going split block. Herds that move to split block-calving to ...
Our official start date for calving is 4 February, and 50% of the herd had calved by 12 February, including 75 heifers, so we have been occupied. At 1 March, 328 cows and heifers had calved, and we ...