Dairy

Barbican Capital said Close Brothers’ actions had led to the group ‘being incorrectly placed into administration’

The EPIHERD project has been awarded a Smart Grant from Innovate UK to develop a platform which will help farmers access epigenomic data on their dairy herds to improve performance.

Fibre in forages is the most underused feed resource in dairy cow diets according to a UK and Ireland study that used new technology to investigate fibre digestibility in a range of herds

Switching to crossbreeding has improved herd health and fertility at one Devon dairy

Processors were working to make alternative arrangements but some farmers will not have their milk collected today

DeLaval recently completed the installation of 24 VMS V310 robots at Lønholm Agro in Denmark, making it the largest batch milking robot farm in the world

Vet Graham Shepherd says there are some common myths when it comes to colostrum pasteurisation for calf feeding

UK politicians have been urged to follow EU law to ensure dairy terms are protected from manufacturers of plant-based products which trade under dairy names and use dairy values to sell products but ‘have very little in common with dairy at all’

Farmers should start preparing now if they want to apply for Defra's new calf housing for health and welfare grant