Cleaning and calibrating a Brix refractometer every time it is used will ensure that colostrum quality is measured accurately and consistently. This will confirm whether the farm’s colostrum protocol ...

The Brix Refractometer may sound like the title of a Dr. Who episode, but – despite its scientific wizardry – it's far more down to earth. In an oversimplified nutshell, the brix refractometer ...

The last month has seen a rapid period of growth for both the wheat and spring barley crops. Warm dry conditions at the start of the month have been followed by a few weeks wetter weather which has ...

The most common use of refractometers is the determination of dissolved solids in a liquid, such as sugar concentration in water. Commonly, the results are expressed in Brix degrees (°Bx), °Bx 1 being ...

Brix Sugar Refractometers is a portable refractometer with rubber coated hand grip and construction. Refractometer is precision optical instrument that operates on the principle- as the concentration ...

With the vast majority of the calves already on the ground, farmers need to ensure November calves are still getting the care ...

Using a portable milking machine in the calving pen is the easiest and fastest way to harvest a cow’s first colostrum and avoid having to move a newly calved cow. “Cows are often a bit unsteady on ...