Dairy

According to a survey from Arla, more than half of Britain's dairy farmers are finding it more difficult than ever to recruit

Lely has introduced a sand flushing system to its robotic manure collectors to make it easier for dairy farmers who bed on sand

As I flew home from my nine weeks of individual Nuffield travel in New Zealand, China, Chile and North America, studying the topic of ‘Inspiring the next generation of dairy entrepreneurs', I found myself asking: 'What have I learned?'

A Welsh dairy farm is companion cropping maize with sunflowers to reduce its purchased protein costs

The introduction of Dairy Shorthorns to the two herds producing Westcombe Cheese, near Shepton Mallet, has been integral to a more holistic approach

The big story since I last wrote has to be the decline in the number of dairy farmers. Just to put it into some sort of perspective, when we started First Milk I think we had 3,500 members

El Rancho farm was the first dairy unit in Argentina to install milking robots in 2018 and now the focus is on controlling rising costs

I would like to start my first column by talking about what is going well, and what is not going so well, which is how we open things up at the robotics milking discussion group I am involved with

Vets Dr John Gallagher and Roger Blowey give their view on the BBC documentary 'Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me'