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Improving the cows environment by making small changes can significantly help to increase the number of lactations she remains in the herd and her overall profitability. Hannah Noble reports.

A focus on making high quality silage has contributed to an impressive increase in yield and milk from forage on a family farm in Northern Ireland.

Making sure the correct fermentation process takes place in the clamp is key to making high quality forage.

George Fabi has been growing wholecrop wheat and oats on the predominantly grass farm for almost 25 years.

This is the first column I have written for Farmers Guardian since my wife Rose’s suicide in June. I have been very touched by the response of so many farming people.

A new record top price of 5,500gns and a record average of 3,477 was set at the premier sale of Herefords at Dungannon.

A farmer has voiced her frustration at public bodies’ failure to take responsibility and help stop historic flooding at her farm, which this year has left thousands of pounds of equipment underwater.

Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack has said he is ‘on industry’s side’ when it comes to concerns about Defra’s livestock transport consultation.

While we will have to wait a little bit longer for a physical version of the French SIMA machinery show, its digital alternative highlighted several machinery and technology developments, from loaders and drills to bale

Leading the trade at the first sale of ewes and lambs at Skipton was a run of pure-bred Charollais ewes with Charollais and Beltex lambs from Neville Smith, Lothersdale.