holstein

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

A small herd of 22 Red Holsteins is producing milk to strict standards to be turned into the world-famous Gruyere cheese

Farming in harmony with local residents is important for the future of the farm run by the Gertenbach family

The Holstein, Ayrshire, Dairy Shorthorn and Jersey each have their breed merits and are milked as one herd on the McLean family's Priestland Farm

With a total commitment to dairy farming, the Higgins family are looking at ways to take their business forward and are hoping the AHDB Strategic Dairy Farm programme will help facilitate this

A continued strong lead by the Holstein sire, Genosource Captain, plus two new graduates in the top 10 are features of the daughter-proven Profitable Lifetime Index (£PLI) ranking

Sons of Genosource Captain now dominate among young genomic Holstein bulls, securing the first four positions in the ranking for Profitable Lifetime Index (£PLI), published this week by AHDB