Dairy farmers should check concentrate feeder accuracy

With the cost of dairy cow concentrates rising, farmers have been urged to check the accuracy of their feeders to ensure they are not overfeeding, or underfeeding, their livestock. Concentrates form a major cost on all dairy farms and are normally fed via in-parlour and out-of-parlour feeders. As well as the cost issue, concentrates are fed accordingly to milk yields, therefore the efficiency of the feeder is of utmost importance. Farmers invest heavily in these feeding systems as they can be q