What's New

Wednesday, 16th September 2009

New data published by NMR at the Dairy Event and Livestock Show, Stoneleigh shows the wide range in technical performance on UK dairy units. Drawing on data from more than 60% of the country’s dairy cows, the data shows a difference in herd average lifetime daily yield (LDY) of 8.9kg between the top and bottom 10%. This is the amount of milk each cow has produced per day of life. More

Wednesday, 16th September 2009

North Yorkshire dairy producer Geoff Spence and his team at Lowfields Farm, Brampton, Northallerton are this year’s winner of the NMR/RABDF Gold Cup. The award was presented at the Dairy Event and Livestock Show, Stoneleigh, today (September 16). More

Thursday, 20th August 2009

Six dairy producers have been named as finalists in this year’s NMR/RABDF Gold Cup from more than 1,000 qualifying herds. Selected from entries throughout Britain, including herds in Scotland and Northern Ireland, these six herds spread from County Antrim to North Yorkshire and south to Dorset. More

Thursday, 6th August 2009

Despite 50 years of vaccines and other tools to help control Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD), the disease still remains a major drain on the UK cattle industry, estimated to cost between £25 and £61 million a year according to studies by the University of Reading. More

Thursday, 6th August 2009

Two new services to be introduced by NMR at this year’s Dairy Event and Livestock Show on September 16 and 17 will help to make improvements in important areas of the dairy business by providing new relevant management information. More

Friday, 15th May 2009

All dairy farmers will have the opportunity to visit one of the UK's leading herds at a summer open day jointly organised by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers and National Milk Records on Tuesday 2 June when Nick Cobb and his family, current holders of the RABDF NMR Gold Cup, open their gates at Northground Dairy, West Chaldon Farm, West Chaldon, Dorchester. More

Tuesday, 7th April 2009

The Ayrshire Breed Society is awarding its breed cup to the highest placed Ayrshire herd in the 2009 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup competition. More

Thursday, 12th March 2009

NMR has published its latest annual production results for the year ending September 2008. More

Thursday, 12th March 2009

National Milk Laboratories (NML) has been awarded two new contracts, one with Ireland's largest milk recording organisation Progressive Genetics and the other with the Royal Veterinary College, to carry out disease tests as part of surveillance programmes in dairy and beef cattle. More

Friday, 6th March 2009

This year almost 1,000 herds have qualified for the 2009 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup.  These herds, from across the UK and including all the main dairy breeds, have met the competition qualifying criteria for herd size, genetic merit and cell counts. More

Wednesday, 4th March 2009

Vicki Edgar is the new area field manager in Cumbria for dairy information company NMR.  She is responsible for the NMR services in the county which involves co-ordinating the team of milk recorders in their day-to-day activities.  More