Calving

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

That was the message from new livestock board chair and Gloucestershire beef suckler farmer David Barton, who added the ‘unpredictability' of this strain of bluetongue was worrying

Kate Rowell is a fifthgeneration farmer running the 750ha (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

A 3D camera designed to identify real-time problems in dairy cows - even before a trained eye of a good stockman could do so - is offering farmers a unique opportunity to maximise fertility and milk production.

Could composted manure prove effective at heating water for calf feeding and help reduce farm energy costs? Mandy Stoker, one of the winners of this year’s Journey to Net Zero competition, thinks just that.

If heifers are one of farmers biggest potential cash cows, farmers can understand how they can maximise their potential thanks to a new genomic tool which informs them of the best calves to invest in.

A cow has given birth to triplets, defying one in 100,000 odds.

Trace minerals play an important role in keeping dairy heifers on the right track for calving at 24 months.

Correct management in the transition period, including meeting greater needs for trace minerals, underpins milk yields, fertility and profitability in the subsequent lactation.