Blog - Dairy

In the coming weeks we look forwards to two important dairy industry events – UK Dairy Day, taking place on September 11; followed by the Dairy Show on October 2

In April this year, farmers across England were receiving £74.2 million for establishing and maintaining herbal leys – the action known as SAM3

In my last column, I wrote about how we were embracing a zero-grazing system, which initially increased our milk yield but significantly added to our workload. Forget that! A few weeks later, yields dipped, grass quality was poor and we were fed up with the extra tractor work and scraping copious amounts of muck. Also, it eventually stopped raining

It's the time of year again to switch off the vacuum pumps, stop making ice and shut the farm gate as we hit the peak three to four weeks of our summer dry period

This week from Alex Black, Farmers Guardian head of news and business

I have recently been helping to chair the British Grassland Society Summer walks across Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex. I cannot help but think that activities like this are just the tonic most farmers need

I don't quite know where to start this month; the weather, milk prices, milk contract legislation or the new Government

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

This month Roger Evans talks about some of the latest agricultural technology and also discusses an icon of the dairy farming world; the scraper tractor

The 83 words mentioned in the Labour manifesto aren't enough for us to understand the detail of their policies