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In my last column, I wrote about how we were embracing a zero-grazing system, which initially increased our milk yield but significantly added to our workload. Forget that! A few weeks later, yields dipped, grass quality was poor and we were fed up with the extra tractor work and scraping copious amounts of muck. Also, it eventually stopped raining

Big investments in milking technology are not always about chart-topping cow numbers or yields

Trade was as hot as the weather at last week's Thame Summer Sheep Fair at Thame showground where 15,295 head sold through the ring over two days to achieve a record clearance of 99.4%.

It's the time of year again to switch off the vacuum pumps, stop making ice and shut the farm gate as we hit the peak three to four weeks of our summer dry period

It was a record-breaking day at the Southdown Sheep Society’s Premier Sale, Worcester, when Chaileybrook His Nibs 24/02116 topped the sale and set a new breed ram lamb record at 2,000gns

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