Marcus Doig

Dairy Management Consultant for Kite. Harper Adams Bsc Agric 2015 Grad Passionate sustainable dairy farming. All views are my own.

[Kite Consulting @kiteconsulting]

Not just John on the platform this week! Last night @marcus_doig & @MaimieSloan were speaking on Dairy production efficiency at a very well attended event hosted by Blackdown Farm Vets #LoveCows #PeoplePlanetProfit

[Kite Consulting @kiteconsulting]

What's it like to join the Kite team & to be a young person in this industry❔ We speak to two of Kite's newest consultants, Marcus Doig & Maimie Sloan on the #KitePodcast this week to find out🎧
With the usual milk market report from @chriswalkland https://t.co/L570IYMiZj

[Kite Consulting @kiteconsulting]

Interesting day for @MaimieSloan & @AgricVic at the international dairy nutrition symposium
🤔 Challenging thinking on protein & starch nutrition
🌎 Methane reduction by dietary intervention
🥛 Interesting global perspective on dairy sustainability #PeoplePlanetProfit

[Kite Consulting @kiteconsulting]

Great discussion on innovations to ⬇️ GHG (& ⬆️ public perception) at this session @marcus_doig & @MaimieSloan attended. Ranked by cost, ease of implementation & public perception. Big winners:
*Methane capture
*feed additives
*Genetic improvement
*Staff efficiency
*Herbal leys

[Kite Consulting @kiteconsulting]

🥛 Flinty & Marcus on farm today - clients newly opened vending machine….they’ve done a great job & are having a fantastic first week - it’s proving to be very popular locally!
#SustainableNutrition #LoveMilk #DairyEveryDay

[Karen Braun @kannbwx]

Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the U.N. signed a deal Friday that aims to fully restore Ukrainian grain shipments from three major ports to pre-war levels within a few weeks. This excerpt from Reuters briefly describes the plan:

[Rupert Sheppard @Rupert_Sheppard]

Visited 3 dairy farms (3-120 milking cows) in Kenya recently by tagging along on @miranda_vet #nuffield22 adventures. All farms X3 milking but struggling for forage quality and quantity 🌱 Clean water access prioritised and great farm goals on the office wall! #teamdairy 🇰🇪🐄🥛

[Stuart Duff @duffy1972]

Hold off buying that fert just yet!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

russian army deliberately shells wheat fields with incendiary missiles.
Ukrainian troops now not only need to fight the russian army but also protect the harvest.

#GenocideOfUkrainians #UkraineRussianWar

[Philip Halhead @HalheadPhilip]

The must read of the weekend ...Jayne Buxton has published her book " The Great Plant based Con" and extracts in todays Sunday Telegraph support what the Ag industry been saying from the start. Policy makers must follow the science. @GHGGuru @AHDB_BeefLamb @TheAHDB @CLANorth @NFU

[A. R. Peters & Son @sussexfarming]

Final piece of the jigsaw. CFs profits up 45%, oil companies post record profits and Tesco report 2.7 billion . No room in the chain to reduce input costs or cushion impact to the consumer and farmer. https://t.co/4Cg4Oornmr

[Kite Consulting @kiteconsulting]

Newest member to the #KiteFamily team is Marcus…he got fully into the spirit of #WednesdayWorkWin

🍫 Take a choc & share your last work win with the team #Inspiring #Success