‘The cow is the customer', believes farmer Stephen Cope, of Bawhill Farm at Adderley, Shropshire. This philosophy is what has led Stephen Cope to take a holistic, integrated and data-driven approach to...
‘The cow is the customer', believes farmer Stephen Cope, of Bawhill Farm at Adderley, Shropshire. This philosophy is what has led Stephen Cope to take a holistic, integrated and data-driven approach to...
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