23 June 2023
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5 min read
Taking over a dairy farm comes with an immense cost and sometimes with crippling bank loans which must be paid back. This is a story Blair and Penelope Drysdale know too well. Following a number of...
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Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent
24 March 2026
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3 min read
Vet, Emma Greaves, shares her top tips for managing pink eye infections within the dairy herd
23 March 2026
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4 min read
The markets have continued to improve markedly, and the first price increases since the autumn of last year are on the cards for May, for some but by no means all processors
20 March 2026
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4 min read
