Arrived in Florida for ADSA 🐄 🐄

Getting shuttle from the airport:
Driver “is everyone here for this dairy convention?”
Pretty much everyone “yes”
Driver “How do you make chocolate milk?”
Whole bus in unison “Brown cows” 😂
#TeamDairy

Week 1 of Nuffield Farming ✅
Spent the week in Leipzig, Germany with Zinpro discussing lameness in cattle in relation to the environment, management and nutrition.

Plus a little trip to the zoo! 🐘🦎🐆

Some great presentations and farm visit now onto ADSA in America

On farm today visit UK Agri-Tech Centre SWDDC first then onto one of our network farms to look at some of the technology being tested & learn about some of the amazing initiatives happening on farm.

Check out root connections on Instagram if you haven’t heard of them!
Bethan John

New Job Alert! 🚨 We're looking for a post-doc to join the team at the National Pig Centre and Faculty of Biological Sciences working on both industry led and academic research projects across all things pig production! 2 year post, closing date 1st July!

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Ida celebrating World Milk Day 🐄🥛

Milk is a staple requirement in our household! #TeamDairy providing great nutrition with lots of essential vitamins and minerals, a perfect sports recovery drink.

Are you aged 21-35 with an interest in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #RedMeat 🥩 supply chain? This could be a fantastic opportunity for developing skills & knowledge and for networking ⬇️

Pleasure to speak at Plumpton College at the Innovation for Agriculture The Royal Agricultural Society of England Farm of the Future event.

Despite appearances of the slide, I was not talking about DIY!

Lots of innovation on methane inhibitors happening - just one possible intervention to help reduce emissions

If anyone else could please fill in my survey, I would be eternally grateful 🙏🏼

Please RT and help me reach as many UK dairy farmers as possible🤍

surveymonkey.com/r/HMKVT2V

Come and join us Plumpton College tomorrow!

Free to attend, but you do need to register 👇👇

2 weeks today I’m leaving for 4 weeks of Nuffield Farming travels.

Starting with a few days in Germany with Zinpro then onto ADSA conference in USA.

After that vaguely following this route 👇
Any suggestions for anyone to go & see about minerals in ruminants let me know!

We need to start framing our role as farmers differently, to bring people with us.

“It is not our responsibility to feed the world, but it is our opportunity to do it.”

“It is not about educating the public, it’s about engagement & it’s a two-way street”

#agrileadershipweek

Home already from The UK Dairy Roadmap meeting today (thanks to it being 15 mins from home!)

Positive day, made even better by Leprino Foods hosting on one of their supplying farms = pizza for lunch 🐄🍕

AHDB Dairy National Farmers' Union Dairy UK

The BSAS presentation training is an excellent opportunity for students looking to improve on their presentation skills. Course due to take place (online) on the 19th of August!

Some of the ongoing projects UK Agri-Tech Centre have on reducing emissions in the ruminant sector:

feednavigator.com/Article/2024/0…

Projects in collaboration with too many industry partners to mention all, but lead partners are Rumenco and Innovis Ltd

Some musings on food security and net zero on the back page of this weeks Farmers Guardian

Particularly around resilience, research and helping farmers to mitigate risk (including financially) when being asked to make significant change.

🧰 Methane inhibitors as part of a toolbox of solutions to reduce emissions

❌ Not a single one stop shop solution

❓❓Unintended consequences, long terms effects, picking the right option for specific systems

🌱 Options for grazing herds?

I’ll discuss all on 30th May 👇🐄

Next chunk of Nuffield Farming travel booked! Looking for recommendations for 🇳🇱🇮🇪🇺🇸 interested in anything dairy, beef, farmer co-ops, policy & trade related. I’m studying the future of non replacement dairy calves in the UK & the ethical, economic & environmental pressures.

Lovely afternoon at Balmoral Show catching up with Cormac, meeting other Nuffield Farming scholars and talking to potential scholars ☀️☀️

Feel like I spend half my life over here!

If anyone wants to chat minerals and/or Nuffield Farming at Balmoral Show today let me know.

My topic info is here: nuffieldscholar.org/scholars/2024/…

Pig and Poultry yesterday, now onto Balmoral Show this morning!

Should have boarded already so 🤞🤞this flight is actually going! If you’re at Balmoral today and want to know more about UK Agri-Tech Centre let me know!