Case Studies

Low milk prices last year led Yorkshire dairy farmers, Gary & Steven Swires, to question the inclusion of yeast in their dairy cow rations, despite having fed yeast for a long time.

Always keeping an eye on what the customer wants is key to success for Powys suckler to store beef producer, Russell Williams, who farms on 900 acres at Red House Farm near Trefeglwys.

The McKee family has been farming at Strangford View Farm in the Craigantlet Hills outside Newtownards, Northern Ireland since 1922.

Many spring-calving dairy herds will see milk butterfat results slide when cows graze on lush spring grass, due to the lack of structural fibre in the diet, and that was certainly something that dairy farmer, John Power, had experienced before he started to use Actisaf live yeast.

It is widely acknowledged that cows get ‘a bit loose’ in the spring when they are grazing on lush pasture. Many dismiss this as an inevitability and nothing more than an inconvenience at milking time, yet these loose dungs are often symptomatic of underlying issues with poor rumen digestion due to a...

Dairy farmer, Jim Scott, has been pleased with the benefits he's seen from feeding Actisaf live yeast to his cows. So, when he heard about a calf bucket that combines Actisaf with Safmannan premium yeast fraction, he was keen to find out more…