Blog - Dairy

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

It has been a late season here in Cornwall with the rain and cold weather delaying the progress of everything

Calving got under way without incident this year at Houghton Lodge and by the end of February we had successfully delivered over 60 per cent of our calvings

This month Roger Evans gives his views on Welsh Government and discusses the recent farming protests, bovine TB, trees and speed limits

As a farmer discussing the weather is an unwritten rule. So, let's start there. Our farming practices have been tested by the relentless weather patterns endured

As a dairy farmer I am very familiar with the extreme highs and lows the market throws at us, and the enormous pressures experienced by businesses like my own during downturns

From Dairy Farmer editor, Katie Jones.