Mineral Advice - Dr Annie Williams

Mineral Advice - Dr Annie Williams Independent mineral advice for ruminants for farmers, vets and consultants.

26/08/2026

🐄 Copper in dairy calves….. not stopping until we solve the problem! 🐄

🫵 You can help inform new recommendations for copper in calf milk replacer and starter feed by participating in the survey.

📸 Video tells you how!

❓Any questions let me know.

Research! Something I don’t speak much about, but a really important part of my work to translate the latest research in...
06/07/2026

Research! Something I don’t speak much about, but a really important part of my work to translate the latest research into commercial practice…… 🐄🐑

I haven’t done any “active” research since completing my PhD (pictured 📸) 2016-2020 at Harper Adams University but I keep up with all the latest research so I can apply it for my clients.

More recently, I’ve stepped back into a more active role. Not in the lab, that’s definitely not for me 😂 but to help design research projects that help us to improve knowledge in real life situations.

Two that are active at the moment:

1. Copper in dairy cows/youngstock with a fab team at Harper. You can hear about it on an upcoming episode of and read in this months

2. Cobalt in dairy cows in Sri Lanka…. More information on that one soon

21/06/2026

🐄🐄 Last weeks and farm meeting, hosted by Babbacombe dairy.

A bit of rain ☔️ did not stop some great discussion. Think farm meetings this week may look a little different! ☀️☀️

It’s and coincidentally exactly one year since I joined ! 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄Also the perfect day for Arla to announce a major merge...
01/06/2026

It’s and coincidentally exactly one year since I joined ! 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄
Also the perfect day for Arla to announce a major merger to become the biggest dairy company in Europe 🌍

As well as the mineral consultancy that I run I work in Arla’s global agricultural sustainability team, looking after feed, nutrition and scope 3 emissions in our whey supply chain. Working on innovation, implementing the latest scientific research and transitioning that through the teams in the market.

Would also consider myself a chocolate milkshake connoisseur and this one from is one of the best!

May wrap-up a really busy month, with a little bit of downtime squeezed in the middle: 1. Started out with a week at Arl...
31/05/2026

May wrap-up a really busy month, with a little bit of downtime squeezed in the middle:

1. Started out with a week at Arla HQ in Denmark 🇩🇰
2. conference talking about sustainability in feed and nutrition
3. Straight over to hopefully to inspire a few people to think about applying for a scholarship 🌍
4. Caught up with some clients while I was over 🐄
5. Article published in on balancing minerals for dry cows
6. Catching up with friends from all over the world at Nuffield Agri-summit in Ireland 🇮🇪
7. Mr Guinness discussing: Feed the world, our responsibility?🍺
8. Battling my way back from Ireland. Very lucky to have friends that come to the rescue when travel plans go wrong! ✈️
9. Final webinar of the Spring series. Thank you so much for your support on these! I’ll be back with new ideas in 2027 🥳
10. I have enjoyed some chill time this month 🧋

June looking even busier, diary to come soon. But definitely features lots of time in south west England so do get in touch if you would like some in person consultancy.

The Nuffield Agri-Summit…. What an event! First of all congratulations to the organisers, an amazing line up of inspirat...
24/05/2026

The Nuffield Agri-Summit…. What an event!
First of all congratulations to the organisers, an amazing line up of inspirational speakers 🎤

I find stepping out of my day-to-day both important and energising. This event had absolutely nothing to do with cattle 🐄 nutrition, but focused on global economics, agri-policy and trade.

Some speakers were pretty frank (which I love!) in their views about import, export, trade deals, decisions driving economics, politics and how this effects agriculture as a whole, but with particular focus on the UK and Ireland who can be pretty divergent when it comes to trade! Also some politicians doing some serious fence sitting….. don’t love that so much

Could write a lot more about what I learnt but left with a feeling you always get at a Nuffield event

“The world is ruled by those that show up”

Loved catching up with friends from around the world 🌍
📸 2024 scholars from UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands and Australia

Congratulations to 🇮🇪

20/05/2026

Don’t forget to sign up for the last webinar in this series - beef cattle.

Again, hosted by the wonderful

Link in bio to sign up.
Recording only available to those signed up through Eventbrite.

See you on Wednesday at 7pm.

16/04/2026

Next in the series of spring webinars is: Mineral Advice, Top Tips and Information for Sheep and Lambs 🐑

🗓️ 29th April
⏰ 7pm

Moving passed the basics, a deep dive into common problems and how to resolve them.

Hosted by
We had great feedback from the dairy one so please do join us.
Link in bio to sign up! ✍️

08/04/2026

Got a sheep that thinks it’s a chicken like ?!

3 weeks to go until the next Spring webinar: Mineral Advice - Top tips and Information for Sheep and Lambs

Agenda:
🐑 Placental transfer of minerals during pregnancy
🐑 A deep dive into vitamin D, B1 (thiamine) and B12
🐑 Selenium requirements and the link with vitamin E
🐑 Growing lambs in poor forage (drought) conditions

All of these are requested topics, so if you have one do let me know!

Hosted by the wonderful

Link in bio to sign up 🙂

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