Dr Kat Baxter-Smith, veterinary adviser for MSD Animal Health, provides answers around how vaccines can help combat pneumonia and reduce the disease’s long-term impacts.

Vaccination has been part of a holistic approach which has seen pneumonia rates plummet at Rerrick Park Farm, Dumfries.

Modern day concentrated whey protein based milk powders can deliver top notch calf performance thanks to careful processing and delivery of essential bio-nutrients

Automated milk feeding enables Barber’s Farmhouse cheesemakers to successfully rear 600 quality heifers per year from seven of their dairy herds.

Installing an automated milk feeder has been part of one Lancashire dairy farm’s drive to future-proof the business.

Jason Short, northern business manager for Volac, runs through some of the key benefits of using automated milk feeders for calf rearing.

To supplement three JCB telehandlers, one Devonshire hay and straw merchant opted for a brace of JCB Fastrac 4220’s carrying colour-coded Quicke 6M loaders. Geoff Ashcroft finds out if the investment has proved worthwhile.

As we approach the middle of July, our preparations for harvest in the north east of Scotland get into gear, with sheds to muck and wash, combines to be serviced and guttering to clean and repair.

Eight years after its launch, Fendt’s 724 remains a favourite for many buyers. But can it go the distance? One Essex contractor believes so, and his 8,000-hour model remains the firm’s go-to tractor. Geoff Ashcroft reports.

The progress made through the shearing season across the UK has shown us there are a huge number of very capable and talented shearers here on home soil, which is something we ought to be proud of.