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Winners of the breed championships battled it out before the panel of judges at this year's Dairy Show at the Bath and West showground, Somerset, with the final judging coming down to a nail-biting finish. Ellie Layton reports.

Despite the torrential wet weather, the new site at Staffordshire County Showground held a triumphant All Breeds All Britain calf show. Ellie Layton reports.

Despite the torrential wet weather, the new site at Staffordshire County Showground held a triumphant All Breeds All Britain calf show. Ellie Layton reports.

Showing dairy cattle is a passion for the Rickard family, who have built up a successful dairy herd from scratch, and future proofed their family farm along the way

The Rockett family combine their passion for showing with keeping the milking herd at home going

Britain's last remaining prison-run dairy farm has installed two milking robots, a move that has significantly increased milk yield from its herd of 120 pedigree Holsteins

Running a housed dairy herd can be expensive but by maximising every cubicle place a Welsh family farm is protecting its profit margins

At long last we are enjoying some warm, dry weather here in Somerset. We have been lucky enough to grab some weather windows to do our first and second cuts on our Italian lays, and our first cut on everything else

As host to the World Ayrshire Federation Conference, it was a fitting result for the Ayrshire breed which claimed supreme in both the dairy inter-breed and junior inter-breed championships at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show

Herd numbers have more than doubled over the past decade at Kaemuir Farm, near Falkirk, increasing the emphasis on forage production for the Orr family and prompting an investment in an umbilical slurry handling system