Organic September: Changes planned for Kent organic dairy farm

Maintaining forage stocks during the winter and managing summer grazing are the main challenges at Commonwork, an organic dairy farm in Kent

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The mixed breed dairy herd farmed at Commonwork in Chiddingstone, Kent, is managed on a contract farming arrangement and has been operated since 2019 by Burdett Farming. The farm, which has been organic...

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