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Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "Sometimes taking a break is the most important thing you can do"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Gemma Smale-Rowland: "Sometimes taking a break is the most important thing you can do"

As we sit back and reflect on 2023, once again the roller coaster weather that we experienced played a significant, and challenging role, across the farming sector

clock 17 January 2024 • 3 min read
Grain maize to become increasingly popular dairy feed

Dairy

Grain maize to become increasingly popular dairy feed

Dairy producers looking to reduce feed costs and boost milk output could do well to team up with local arable growers planning to grow maize this spring following a difficult autumn drilling programme

clock 13 January 2024 • 3 min read
Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "Since this time I have now leased cows to five different dairy businesses"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "Since this time I have now leased cows to five different dairy businesses"

Having figured out at a relatively young age that one day I wanted to have a dairy farm of my own I knew that with very little capital to start off with this was going to be a real challenge

clock 12 January 2024 • 3 min read
Slurry trials help inform management decisions

Dairy

Slurry trials help inform management decisions

Different rates of slurry and artificial fertiliser have been trialled by Ayrshire dairy farmer, John Kerr, to see how yields can be optimised and costs reduced

clock 05 January 2024 • 4 min read
Milk prices start to ease upwards

Dairy

Milk prices start to ease upwards

It is welcome news that some milk buyers have found themselves in a position to be able to increase milk prices either for December or the start of the New Year

clock 30 December 2023 • 3 min read
Labour and health benefits of automated slurry robots

Dairy

Labour and health benefits of automated slurry robots

Installing an automated slurry robot has helped one Welsh dairy save labour and improve cow foot health

clock 03 December 2023 • 5 min read
Adjusting to life with robots on fourth generation dairy farm

Dairy

Adjusting to life with robots on fourth generation dairy farm

Moving from an eight-unit abreast parlour to milking robots has brought change, opportunity and growth, but also significant adjustment to Tim Jeynes and his family

clock 29 November 2023 • 7 min read
Roger Evans: "It's a merry-go-round where one sector supports the other"

Dairy

Roger Evans: "It's a merry-go-round where one sector supports the other"

Roger Evans discusses the price of ewes, reminisces  about some of the mobile phone technology he used to have, and talks about the perils of coming into contact with a hornet

clock 27 November 2023 • 4 min read
Dairy Talk - Matthew Winter: "A welcome social break from a job that can be isolating at times"

Dairy

Dairy Talk - Matthew Winter: "A welcome social break from a job that can be isolating at times"

Our embryo transfer technician joked that when he drove away from a farm in late March he cheerily wished his client a 'Happy Christmas', having just implanted 30 embryos

clock 27 November 2023 • 2 min read
UK commodity prices trending up

Dairy

UK commodity prices trending up

UK butter prices have increased in line with EU prices to £4,450/t, with cream at around £2.00/kg now, having been in the doldrums over the summer at £1.60 to £1.70/kg

clock 27 November 2023 • 4 min read
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