Global dairy prices are increasing, but that has yet to filter through to higher UK farmgate prices. The latest Global Dairy Trade Index auction price was US$3,434 (£2,637) achieved on January 21, which...
Global dairy prices are increasing, but that has yet to filter through to higher UK farmgate prices. The latest Global Dairy Trade Index auction price was US$3,434 (£2,637) achieved on January 21, which...
Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devon, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cows via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres
Rising productivity in modern dairy herds can come at a cost, with nutritional stress now a key driver of poor fertility in high yielding herds
Income from the sale of milking heifers influences sire selection on a Lincolnshire dairy where functional, medium-sized cows suit the system at Bassingthorpe Holsteins