A high standard of colostrum management and a slow weaning process are two ‘non-negotiable' elements of calf rearing for Staffordshire-based Dan Lovatt, who milks 1,000 Jersey cross Friesian spring calvers across two site
Dairy farming in South Africa comes with its own set of unique challenges, but despite this Paul and Sarah Reynolds are focused on expansion
Running a housed dairy herd can be expensive but by maximising every cubicle place a Welsh family farm is protecting its profit margins
The British Grassland Society's summer meeting included visits to livestock farmers in the South of England making low input grassland work for their systems
I have recently been helping to chair the British Grassland Society Summer walks across Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex. I cannot help but think that activities like this are just the tonic most farmers need
I don't quite know where to start this month; the weather, milk prices, milk contract legislation or the new Government
The aim for beef and arable farmer, Jimi Collis and his herd manager Matt House is to find the ‘business sweet spot' by balancing output and profit with increasing biodiversity
One upland farmer is growing income from lamb sales by performance recording his closed flock of Welsh Mountain ewes
Interim results from a collaborative project to analyse carbon footprint data from UK beef and sheep farms were outlined at a recent webinar organised by food processor, ABP Food Group. The wide variation within the range of figures indicated significant potential for improvement according to Prof Jude Capper, who analysed the results
There have been some recent personnel changes at the British Limousin Cattle Society, notably the chief executive and chair