Blog - Dairy

Livestock specialist, Katie Fallon, reflects on the pride and passion that goes into breeding and selling livestock

This month, Roger Evans talks about his school days, terrifying teachers and how learning to speak French surprisingly paid off

Graeme Hills, director and head of tax at Duncan & Toplis reflects on what changes to business property relief will have for business owners

Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devton, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cow via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres

Livestock specialist Katie Fallon looks ahead to the start of this year's silage season

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

Livestock specialist Katie Fallon looks at Defra's proposed consultation for extending environmental permitting to the cattle sector

This month, Roger Evans talks about visiting Scotland, his car journeys there and some highlights from his various holidays there

Bas Padberg, chair of The Dairy Roadmap, says that sustainability has to be a practical, business-relevant strategy that works for farms today

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.