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Maximising heifer growth pre-weaning

Ensuring heifers have a long and productive life is crucial to maintaining a profitable dairy enterprise, and achieving optimal growth rates pre-weaning can help realise this.

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Maximising heifer growth pre-weaning

Ensuring heifers have a long and productive life is crucial to maintaining a profitable dairy enterprise, and achieving optimal growth rates pre-weaning can help realise this. With 35 per cent of heifer...

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