Dairy

As Russia continues to bomb power plants in Ukraine, a dairy farmer has been forced to milk more than 1,500 cows using diesel generators. Chris McCullough reports.

I think 2022 perfectly encapsulates the challenges we now face when planning out our year ahead.

Arla is to hold its member milk price until January 1, ahead of what it describes as a ‘negative outlook’.

Nine farms across Scotland are set to join the Monitor Farm programme for 2022 to 2026.

The Beckett family’s focus on producing as much high-quality grass as possible has been rewarded with success in the recent Ulster Grassland Society competition. Richard Halleron reports.

Free-range egg farmers were calling for supermarkets to look to the dairy sector for answers as the average producer loses 29p for every dozen eggs they sell.

Practical tips around feeding home-grown protein were up for discussion at a recent AHDB dairy roadshow at Court Farm in Gloucestershire.

A new grant to help farmers in England better manage slurry is being introduced next month, the Government has confirmed.

Dairy co-operative Arla has joined forces with charity Magic Breakfast to raise awareness about children’s hunger as a reported four million UK youngsters go without food each morning.

With limited improved pasture, silage ground at the James Hutton Institute’s hill farm in Aberdeenshire has to ‘punch above its weight’, as Ewan Pate found out.