Several innovative ideas are helping the Phipps family ensure the beef it supplies to Morrisons has as low a carbon footprint as possible

Sheep keepers not already recording animal movements online are being encouraged to do so

A Welsh dairy farm is companion cropping maize with sunflowers to reduce its purchased protein costs

The introduction of Dairy Shorthorns to the two herds producing Westcombe Cheese, near Shepton Mallet, has been integral to a more holistic approach

The big story since I last wrote has to be the decline in the number of dairy farmers. Just to put it into some sort of perspective, when we started First Milk I think we had 3,500 members

El Rancho farm was the first dairy unit in Argentina to install milking robots in 2018 and now the focus is on controlling rising costs

Genetics has a bigger role to play in lameness incidence than previously thought, said Prof Georgios Oikonomou, who discussed a research project looking at this topic during one of the day's seminars

This week from head of livestock and Dairy Farmer editor, Katie Jones

The countdown is on to the 10th anniversary of UK Dairy Day, which takes place at the International Centre, Telford, on September 11, 2024

Grass and maize crops could have nutrient deficiencies this autumn and winter, due to the wet spring, so farmers should consider getting forage sampled ahead of feeding out