Making a realistic assessment of silage stocks and careful planning will be important actions to ensure winter forage supplies will last through to turnout says Dai Lewis, technical commercial manager with Massey Feeds.

There is currently much talk about the benefits of regenerative agriculture and a research project is now looking at how the approach could be adopted on large commercial beef farms. Katie Jones and Hannah Park report.

Sustainability nearly always goes hand-in-hand with efficiency, but there are also some examples where something is sustainable but perhaps not efficient, said dairy farmer Neil Baker from Somerset.

Organisers of the Royal Welsh Show have announced that the event usually held in July in Builth Wells will not take place this year.

Kale is being successfully utilised as an out-wintering crop for in-calf dairy heifers at Harper Adams University. While cost savings are important in this scenario, it should not come at the expense of animal health as Katie Jones discovered.

From January 1, 2021, dairy farmers selling their milk to Arla could see an increased number of calves on their farmers due to the co-operative’s new calf policy. Katie Jones looks at research into temporary calf

In the latest bull proofs, released this week by AHDB Dairy, there is a raft of newcomers in the genomic rankings alongside relative stability among the top daughter-proven bulls.

Until 2011, Red Hall Farm was home to a herd of dairy cows, but fast forward to present day and it is a very different product which is now being sold off the farm. Katie Jones reports.