Blog - Dairy

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

Claire Eastham farms with her husband Martyn in Dorset, where they milk 120-spring calving cows. After gaining knowledge and experience working for other businesses, the couple started their own dairy farming journey in 2015 by taking on a share farming agreement before progressing to their current county council farm

Hugh Pocock, director at Cultura Connect, provides an insight into his visit to the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Dallas

Alex Black, Farmers Guardian's head of news and business, reflects on legislation looking to boost fairness in the supply chain

As I write this at the very end of April, the race is on to see who will be the first to silage in Cheshire. The sun's shining and there's no rain forecast at all

With this article's deadline looming, I sit here in my office as dawn breaks on yet another glorious spring morning, with birds vocal chords in fine fettle and the promise of another warm and sunny day to look forward to

This month, Roger Evans describes the practice of vacuum silage and discusses the art of discretion