Dairy

Designer and manufacturer of milking equipment, DeLaval, has launched a new concept around automatic milking. Hannah Park reports.

Careful budgeting and persistence are the key requirements to the success of once-a-day milking systems. Wendy Short reports.

A new report has highlighted increasing global demand for dairy which the UK was well-placed to meet

Processors and retailers have been warned to stop playing the blame game or face dairy farmers banging on their doors to get the price rises they need.

With an increased starling population as the winter months set in at risk of eating into total mixed rations and other hard feed stocks on dairy farms, we round up some of the advice on how to effectively control starling numbers. Hannah Park reports.

The cooperative said it was needed at a time of ’significant inflationary pressure impacting on-farm costs and milk production’.

The dairy said it was ’acutely aware of the spiralling costs’ impacting farmers

Delegates gathered in Stratford-upon-Avon for the 2021 Total Dairy conference, where speakers discussed how the dairy industry could build resilience. Jonathan Wheeler reports.

Delegates gathered in Stratford-upon-Avon for the 2021 Total Dairy conference, where speakers discussed how the dairy industry could build resilience. Jonathan Wheeler reports.

It comes as dairy farmers see input costs rise dramatically driving up the cost of production