News - Dairy

UK butter prices have increased in line with EU prices to £4,450/t, with cream at around £2.00/kg now, having been in the doldrums over the summer at £1.60 to £1.70/kg

Investing £30,000 in starling-proofing cattle housing is a major outlay for a Welsh dairy farming business, but it calculates a payback period of just two months in feed savings alone

A social science research project launched earlier this year has identified five key themes outlining the main challenges farmers and vets face when controlling Johne’s disease on-farm

Graham Wilkinson will take over the reins at AHDB after Tim Rycroft steps down

Vet Sarah Hampson of LLM Farm Vets, explains why quarterly infectious disease checks can be beneficial to track antibody trends in bulk milk samples and the benefits of collective herd health data

The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers welcomes head of agrifoods at HSBC, Allan Wilkinson, as their new president, succeeding Lord Ewen Cameron

Sustainability, potential export markets and monitoring future supplies were top of the agenda as chief reporter Rachael Brown spoke to Muller’s Rob Hutchison about the dairy’s priorities looking ahead

It is all part of ambitious plans to double the value of British dairy exports over the next 10 years

Farmers are being encouraged to test for Q fever if they are experiencing a range of fertility issues in their dairy herds

Proposals were announced which included cutting livestock numbers to meet 2030 targets