AHDB Food & Farming

In this edition Lis King, AHDB’s Senior Research Scientist, talks to Debbie McConnell, Dairy grassland researcher at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in Northern Ireland about GrassCheckGB. The project is aiming to improve animal performance and farm profitability in pasture based systems by understanding the potential and variation in grass growth across 50 farms in Great Britain.

Join AHDB's machinery guru Harry Henderson and Monitor Farm hosts Richard Orr and Tom Rees to hear all about how you can use a machinery and labour review on your farm, to help you make more informed decisions.

[Do your own machinery review](https://ahdb.org.uk/machinery-costing-calculator)

[Read more about Tom Rees, Pembrokeshire Monitor Farm host](https://ahdb.org.uk/news/use-data-to-make-informed-decisions)

[Find out about Richard Orr, Downpatrick Monitor Farm host](https://ahdb.org.uk/Search?q=Richard+Orr)

Panel discussion about key issues and impacts of Brexit on the UK’s agricultural and horticultural sectors

AHDB's Siwan Howaston brings us this final EuroDairy podcast, focusing on resource efficiency and asking the question; how farmers can maximise their use of home-grown forage?

Welcome to the first horticulture podcast, I’m Aisha and in this episode Hayley Campbell-Gibbons, the horticulture Chair, will provide an insight into the labour challenges that growers are currently facing due to Brexit. 

For those who missed the SmartHort conference, Hayley touches on how successful the event was and the exciting projects AHDB have planned for horticulture growers.  

Tom Hind, our Chief Strategy Officer gives us an insight into the current issues around Brexit and what this means for growers. Listen now to find out what this means for your business and how we can help you. 

For further information please visit: ahdb.org.uk/smarthort or  ahdb.org.uk/brexit

In the first AHDB Pork podcast we focus on water. 

We hear from Zanita Markham (AHDB) and Mark Jagger (Tulip) as we look at the importance and impact of cleaning water systems on pig performance, along with how water can be used to deliver medication. 

We also find out about some of the work we are doing on one of our strategic farms from Andrew Palmer, AHDB knowledge exchange manager.

We finish up with a quick update on the outlook for pig prices and feed costs from Bethan Wilkins, one of our analysts.

 

Water sampling for microbiology, minerals and flow rate video

A guide to designing a water supply system for livestock

Acceptable drinking water parameters for pigs factsheet

Standard operating procedure (SOP) for collecting water samples

Strategic farms

Pork Talk market update videos

AHDB Brexit hub

 

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In the episode; AHDB's Laura Bouvet and Adrian Cunnington of Sutton Bridge Crop Storage research discuss the impact of losing CIPC could have on the potato industry.

You can find out more information on this by visiting our Storage Hub

We hear from Nerys Wright, Knowledge Exchange Manager for the East and South East regions. She speaks to Lesley Stubbings, Independent sheep consultant on the timely topic of Nematodirus and how best to prevent and treat the disease in new born lambs.

For more information you can check out the Nemotodirus forecast that is available on the sustainable control of parasites group (SCOPS) website: www.scops.org.uk

We hear all things spring cropping from a recent Cereals & Oilseeds Monitor Farm meeting in Duxford, featuring farmers Tom Mead and David Hurst, AHDB market analyst James Webster, as well as oat miller Brin Hughes and Peter Smith from Agrii.

[Find out more about the Duxford Monitor Farm](https://cereals.ahdb.org.uk/duxford)

[Read the latest AHDB Market Information](https://cereals.ahdb.org.uk/markets.aspx)

*Correction - We erroneously named the two farmers in the podcast as Tom Hurst and David Mead. This should have been Tom Mead and David Hurst.

Katie Thorley, Senior Knowledge Transfer Manager asks farmer Catherine Bunting and vet Sarah Tomlinson from Westpoint vets about what you should do once your farm has been shut down due to TB.  For more information please visit the TB hub