Blog - Dairy

This month, Roger Evans discusses moving to the country for a ‘good life' and takes a look at how grass has fared over recent months

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire, and is aiming to improve the land farmed, encourage others to participate in the industry and deliver attractive returns to his stakeholders

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

This month, Roger Evans discusses cow's feet, fallen stock and the mysteries of mobile phones

In Your Field columnist Alan Carter on the weather in Cornwall, mischievous cows, the Royal Cornwall Show being cancelled, and the decline in dairy farms

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 200 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built

Matthew Elphick, a regenerative dairy farmer from Redhill, Surrey, explains why he has chosen the regenerative route and the challenges it brings

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses