Dairy

As 2021 draws to an end, Hannah Binns takes a look back at key industry and political developments which made the farming headlines this year.

As consumers plan their festive cheeseboards, Hannah Binns caught up with Neal’s Yard Dairy’s David Lockwood about why the relationships built with producers needed to be at the heart of the business.

A lack of forage and soaring input costs were holding back milk production in the UK

With the transition to environmental payments prompting farmers to tap into alternative income streams, AHDB’s Farm Business Review service is helping one Wiltshire farmer add value to his farming operation. Mollie Leach reports.

The dairy has announced a 3ppl rise from January 1

Muller was targeting a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from its farmer suppliers as consumers look more closely at the impact of the choices they make.

Only levy payers registered by March 31 2022 will be able to vote on the future direction of AHDB

A Somerset farm run by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farming (RABDF) chair and his family has been fined £37,184 for polluting a watercourse with slurry and manure.

MORE than 500 Holsteins went under the hammer when the Woodmarsh herd was dispersed on-farm at Bomere Heath near Shrewsbury on behalf of the Gould family grossing more than 1.3 million and peaking at 19,000gns.

Robert Wiseman’s first ever signed dairy producer has handed in his notice to Muller, claiming it is no longer ‘economically viable’ for his business to supply the dairy.