Livestock

Good business management of your dairy enterprise is the key to continuing and future success. With the reduction in milk prices, Single farm payment and subsequent tightening of margins, along with the uncertainty over the future of quotas, it has become increasingly important to monitor herd performance on a regular basis.

Coupled with up-to-date technical information and access to the latest research studies we can enable you to make the right management decisions for your business.  SAC offers knowledge of the dairy sector at local and regional level combined with information from our ongoing research programmes.

SAC Consulting offers you a modular package of services from which you can select those elements that fit best with your own management system and will offer you the best return on investment. This will provide you with a uniquely flexible herd management consultancy package to enable you to make the right decisions for maximum profitability.

Subject areas covered include:

• Nutrition
• Grassland management
• Fertility
• Herd management
• Young stock rearing 
• Business services - Budgets, business planning and personal finance
• Animal health and welfare planning
• Farm assurance standards
• Waste management plans

SAC Consulting Dairy services are open to all dairy farmers. Your locally based consultant will manage your consultancy package throughout the year, backed up by national and regional specialists in dairy farming so that you have all the latest industry and research information made available to you.

We also offer a range of training courses to those involved in the Dairy industry.  For details of the courses offered, please follow the training link on the right or contact the Dairy Select Team.

To find out more or to subscribe to specialist dairy consultancy contact your local SAC office or the Dairy Select Team.