Livestock

Claire Eastham farms with her husband Martyn in Dorset, where they milk 120-spring calving cows. After gaining knowledge and experience working for other businesses, the couple started their own dairy farming journey in 2015 by taking on a share farming agreement before progressing to their current county council farm.

A Somerset milk producer believed his closed herd was protected from BVD, until an abortion storm prompted him to call in his vet to investigate. Wendy Short reports.

As the nation celebrates Great British Beef week, Emily Ashworth looks at how beef can benefit your health and the environment.

At a recent AHDB webinar, Sara Pedersen, cattle health and production specialist at Farm Dynamics, explained how recording data on farms can improve foot health within the dairy herd. Katie Fallon reports.

Minette Batters told NFU Council failure to implement a strategy to underpin food security would suggest the Government was focused on putting farmers out of business

How you seal your silage clamp can have a huge effect on the speed and efficiency of the clamp-filling process, the quality of forage ultimately produced and the labour hours needed to maintain it once it is opened for feed-out.

For share farming couple Vanessa and Bart van de Ven, public perception of dairy farming in New Zealand is cause for concern. Chris McCullough finds out what they are doing to counter the negativity.

High costs continue to drive the global market, keeping supplies tight. Cedric Porter reports.

Be flexible and tailor pre and post-emergence sprays to specific weed burdens on fields advises independent agronomist Richard Cromie. Dairy Farmer reports.

Cows start to feel uncomfortable and can experience heat stress at lower temperatures than some might realise.