In the first of a series of articles from Rory Dean, a self-employed, large animal vet who practices in the Kaipara region of Northland, New Zealand, we hear about the challenges being faced by New Zealand dairy farmers

Ifan Roberts is herd manager at Houghton Lodge, Leicestershire, which is one of the farms managed by Evolution Farming

Michael Oakes, dairy farmers and NFU dairy board chair, discusses the findings of the NFU's recent Dairy Production Intentions survey

Looking more closely at dietary sugars will help unlock the value in this year’s silages and help offset the consequences of more volatile major feed commodity markets

The EPIHERD project has been awarded a Smart Grant from Innovate UK to develop a platform which will help farmers access epigenomic data on their dairy herds to improve performance.

Fibre in forages is the most underused feed resource in dairy cow diets according to a UK and Ireland study that used new technology to investigate fibre digestibility in a range of herds

Switching to crossbreeding has improved herd health and fertility at one Devon dairy

DeLaval recently completed the installation of 24 VMS V310 robots at Lønholm Agro in Denmark, making it the largest batch milking robot farm in the world

Farmgate prices may have stabilised for some, but there is no guarantee that there will not be further milk price reductions in Q4, as milk prices are still outstripping the value of commodities by some distance