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Rumenation Ltd – Independent Dairy & Beef Nutrition and Management Consultancy

Rumenation Nutrition Consultancy

A fully independent, farm focussed advisory business

Coming from a livestock farming background and following studies at Harper Adams University where I completed a B.Sc.(Hons) degree in Agriculture specialising in ruminant livestock production, I decided to pursue a career in livestock nutrition. Initially working in the compound feed industry as a cattle specialist, and then supporting mixer wagon users in both the UK, Ireland, with secondments to New Zealand, Chile, and France.

The decision was made in 1997 to form a fully independent, farm-focused advisory business. Rumenation Nutrition Consultancy now works with progressive dairy units across a range of systems, as well as a number of medium and large-scale beef units.

Hefin Richards B.Sc.(Hons) Agric. ASAg

Key areas of expertise and interest include:

Total Mixed Ration Feeding
Optimising metabolic health through nutrition
Forage production and management
Alternative forages and crop preservation methods
Co-product feeds
Dry and transition cow nutrition and management
Youngstock nutrition and management
Dairy unit feeding audits & troubleshooting

Services

As an Advisor Grade member of the Society of Agriculture and an AIC registered Feed Adviser (FAR122), continued professional development is a requirement which is achieved through a combination of sources, including:

Dairy Nutrition & Management Course – Blanca, Pyrenees
Farm Animal Health & Welfare and Ruminant Nutrition & Management Courses – IBERS, Aberystwyth
Total Dairy Expo & Conference, AHDB, & Premier Nutrition Conference
Elanco Vital 90 Dairy Conference, Barcelona (delegate & speaker)
Study trips to the Netherlands & Turkey
Webinars, online resources and livestock/dairy press

Fully independent on farm dairy and beef nutrition and technical consultancy
Herd performance and nutrition review
Industry training and farm meetings
Nutrition support for dairy Vet Practices and allied companies.
On-Farm Forage Analysis using the latest NIR technology from NIR4Farm
Ration formulation using Ultramix Professional / FiM software
Advice and recommendations to ensure producers meet the requirements of NDFAS for nutrition and feed plans

Rumenation offers you the opportunity to separate advice from product supply and therefore ensure that feed product selection and sourcing is what’s right for you and your herd.

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Useful Links

Web Articles

Dairy transition management: Why diet is not the only focus
Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk)

How to correctly supplement beef cattle with minerals
Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk)

6 feed strategies to mitigate heat stress in cattle
Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk)

A Welsh suckler beef farm is achieving average daily liveweight gains (DLWG) of 2.4kg in bulls it finishes at 13 months on a ration formulated with a high level of its own rolled barley.
Farming Connect (gov.wales)

Transitioning the autumn-calving cow – Free
farmersjournal.ie

How Welsh dairy has halved carbon emissions
Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk)

Beef farmer replaces bought-in protein with home-grown pulses
Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk)

5 ways to help prevent silage slippage
Farmers Weekly (www.fwi.co.uk)

Case study – YouTube
NIR4 Farm: Real-time forage intelligence with Hefin Richards

PDF Articles

Farmers Weekly Article: Advice on managing silage stocks for dairy diets
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Congratulations to long term clients Kingsplay Farming on winning the “Climate Positive Agriculture Award” at the 2024 Dairy Industry Cream Awards and then going on to win “Mixed Farmer of the Year” at the prestigious Farmers Weekly Awards 2024.
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Warning over copper levels in feed
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Planning Winter Feeding Tactics
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Feeder operation critical to rationing accuracy | Kuhn
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Sustainable feed sources are a key consideration when formulating rations
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