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The dry period isn’t just a farm holiday but a chance to get your herd match-fit for calving and early lactation. If you treat it as a focused phase of preparation, recovery and capacity building, you’ll see the benefits when the cows return to milk.

The lactation period runs from two weeks after calving until drying off.

With winter now well underway, dairy cows are fast approaching the most stressful time of the year.