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Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "I'm very honoured and privileged to have been asked to judge the 'Dairy Farmer of the Year' class for The British Farming Awards 2024"

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

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Dairy Talk - Becky Fenton: "I'm very honoured and privileged to have been asked to judge the 'Dairy Farmer of the Year' class for The British Farming Awards 2024"

So, we decided to turn the cows out and feed them a buffer of grass and maize silage, alongside mash pro and a 21% dairy nut. This change substantially increased the yield by approximately 5.7 litres per...

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