Blog - Dairy

How can it be December already? With it being the season to be jolly, I won't dwell on the negatives. That said, I can't ignore the milk price

South Devon MP Caroline Voaden writes for Farmers Guardian on milk price volatility, dairy farmers who feel undercut by one-sided contracts, and an industry-wide need for a regulator which can stand up for British farmers

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

At long last, capital grant, Farming Equipment and Technology Fund and Farming Transformation Fund applications are materialising into agreement offers

This month, Roger Evans discusses the important role that farmers play in their communities, and how having fewer farmers will impact society

NFU board chair Paul Tompkins answers some of the questions that have emerged following recent milk price cut announcements

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Ruth Umpleby discusses the dairy sector and recent milk price reductions

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana.

Phil Christopher discusses ‘psustainability-for-psurvival’ where the silent ‘p’s are for profit