Installing a new parlour has more than halved standing time, reduced mastitis cases, improved foot health and increased yield for the Jenkins family
Crowds flock to Wadebridge for the three days of the Royal Cornwall where the rings were filled with quality livestock. Ruth Wills reports.
Cambridgeshire brothers Mat and Lloyd Smith are taking bold steps to safeguard a sustainable future for their family's fenland arable farm. Teresa Rush reports
‘No Íæż½ã½ã No Food’ is as much a harsh reality as it is a powerful rallying cry says Plaid Cymru leader
Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers.
The findings of the UK's largest survey of dairy cow mobility and foot health highlights there is still a significant opportunity to reduce the economic, welfare, social and environmental consequences of compromised mobility
James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria, with his parents Kathleen and Henry, wife Michelle and sons Robert and Chris. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network
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Delegates at the World Ayrshire Federation Conference UK 2024 will be visiting the Window family's Hunnington herd in Worcestershire, as part of this summer's tour programme. Wendy Short reports