Dairy Farmer

As labour supply remains a challenge for the agricultural industry, understanding how to best attract future employees, is key to combating the hidden costs of staff turnover.

With a high protein content and the ability to maintain yields, forage peas could provide the alternative protein source dairy farmers have been searching for.

Following the launch of Defra’s Annual Health and Welfare Review last week, Katie Fallon looks at how farmers can get involved.

With unvaccinated livestock at risk of clostridial diseases, farmers are being urged to plan ahead for vaccine supply issues.

As environmental pressures increase and input costs continue to rise, the importance of soil health and the concept of regenerating soils, is a topic of conversation more and more farmers are becoming a part of.

The Animal and Plant Health Association (APHA) has announced that field trials for cattle vaccine and new skin test for Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) are moving onto the next phase, in the fight to eradicate the disease.

A switch to cross-breeding can feel like a daunting step, so a Yorkshire farming family put a toe in the water by importing a wagon-load of cross-bred in-calf heifers

You take for granted what you see every day. I think of this as I catch a glimpse of the Red Arrows practicing above me, which is so commonplace here during winter as to go almost unnoticed.