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Following the difficult grass growing season of 2025, dairy producers may want to consider taking steps to mitigate against another similar year particularly in light of falling milk prices

Dairy farmers should scrutinise the content of their calf milk powders to ensure they are getting the best return on investment in the feed at a time of falling farmgate milk prices

Bas Padberg, chair of The Dairy Roadmap, says that sustainability has to be a practical, business-relevant strategy that works for farms today

Gareth Lee has built a successful one-man contracting business producing silage bales which maintain quality and are robust enough to last two winters

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 200 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built.

Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent

Vet, Emma Greaves, shares her top tips for managing pink eye infections within the dairy herd

The markets have continued to improve markedly, and the first price increases since the autumn of last year are on the cards for May, for some but by no means all processors

Ben Yates manages Mells Park Estate, Somerset, where he oversees a 400-cow unit and manages the 405-ha (1,000 acre) estate. Along with his wife and two sons, Ben has his own small herd of pedigree Holsteins under the Wowcow prefix. He joined the Holstein UK Board of Trustees in 2021

Stuart Sadler is a fourth-generation farmer on the 56-hectare (138-acre) Yew Tree 51AVÊÓƵjust south of Chester in Aldersey. In partnership with his parents, Stuart milks 75 predominantly Friesian cows calving all year-round supplying Arla C.A.R.E.