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Exceptional feed efficiency and fertility drive the success of one family dairy farm on the edge of the Peak District.

Dairy farming is too often a marginal business, so there is a need to drive profitability, and genetics is a great place to start.

Making a difference to the environment within the company and for the wider industry has been the aim of Massey Feeds for 20 years.

Beth Menzies, 21, grew up on her family hill farm in Argyll, studied agriculture at Scotland’s Rural College and works as a shepherd in the Scottish Borders.

Harnessing the power of genomics is driving genetic gain and providing the key to improved herd performance on a Wiltshire dairy farm.

Updating a slurry system to increase capacity and flexibility has offered wide ranging benefits for one Wiltshire dairy farmer. Jane Carley reports.

Feeding a sustainable dairy compound is helping one Cornish dairy farmer to meet the climate change challenge

As 2020 began, who could have forecast what was about to hit us and the rest of the world.

This is the time of year for reflection after we get the last of the Christmas orders out of the shop.

I find myself writing my final In Your Field article. There is a lot of change on the horizon for 2021 in farming and in my own life and, although I will miss the writing, it is time for someone new to stretch their grey matter after a Christmas to remember, if possibly not for the right reasons.