Blog - Dairy

Reggie Deakin, 21, is an assistant farm manager at Wigborough Wick Farm in St Osyth, Essex

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

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

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Tony Goodger, from the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers, discusses a dispute over the term 'milk' being used for plant-based products

This month, Roger Evans discusses min-till, visits from the Environment Agency and farmers becoming ‘low-hanging fruit'

This month, New Zealand vet Rory Dean talks about running low on medication, 'robust discussions' with farming clients and the fortunate growing season

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