Dairy

Fraser Jones milks 1,450 Holstein Friesians and employs 37 people across three sites near Welshpool. Herd health, sustainability and welfare are key priorities for Fraser, who is a Disease? Not On My Farm! ambassador for MSD Animal Health.

Attention to detail is helping to drive herd foot and udder health at Glaniwrch Holsteins and has also resulted in the herd winning a recent award. Ellie Layton reports.

A simplified licence enabling English farmers and landowners to vaccinate badgers has been introduced to help in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the Government has announced.

Being aware of the factors influencing puberty and how a heifer’s oestrus cycle works is key to successful heifer fertility, explains Jenny Bellini and Rob Hall, of LLM Farm Vets. Katie Fallon reports.

Dan Burdett and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place near Edenbridge, Kent.

Bovine tuberculosis remains one of the ‘main threats’ to Welsh farming, according to a report published by a Senedd committee.

It is the simple system at Nerewater Farm which has allowed Richard Bell to lead the national British Friesian rankings in the National Milk Records’ annual production report for the last five years. Katie Fallon reports.

A Ukrainian dairy farmer has vowed to rebuild his business after Russian soldiers killed 110 of his animals and damaged his farm near Chernihiv. Chris McCullough reports.

The co-operative said the ’significant increase’ in farmgate milk price will allow many farmers to make longer term operating and supply-chain decisions.

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 180 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built.