First Milk will raise its members’ milk price by 0.5ppl from August 1.

Head of agriculture for Virgin Money Brian Richardson highlights that advance planning and preparation will maximise your chance of successful grant applications.

UK food and drink exports have been impacted by Covid-19 and Brexit, but there is a fundamental strength about the quality and integrity of British food that means it is in demand across the world.

Victoria and William Newsham took responsibility for their father’s Lancashire dairy herd after he died in September 2019. Since then they have made impressive changes to management, improving productivity and efficiency to secure the farm’s future.

Paying attention to details and making lots of practical, small changes is the way to improve transition management and overall herd performance, according to Dr Huw McConochie, dairy nutritionist with Zinpro Corporation.

The ongoing saga of footpath signs continues.

We spoke to three independent experts about transition cow management.