Blog - Dairy

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.

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. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent

Ben Yates manages Mells Park Estate, Somerset, where he oversees a 400-cow unit and manages the 405-ha (1,000 acre) estate. Along with his wife and two sons, Ben has his own small herd of pedigree Holsteins under the Wowcow prefix. He joined the Holstein UK Board of Trustees in 2021

Stuart Sadler is a fourth-generation farmer on the 56-hectare (138-acre) Yew Tree Farm just south of Chester in Aldersey. In partnership with his parents, Stuart milks 75 predominantly Friesian cows calving all year-round supplying Arla C.A.R.E.

Mark Chatterton is the director and head of agriculture at Duncan & Toplis, which is one of the largest accounting and business advisers in the UK

This month, Roger Evans discusses the value of milk, work ethic and hare coursers

This month, New Zealand vet, Rory Dean discusses the silage season, an increase in spending at some of his farms, and his sporting endeavours