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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

Becky Fenton

18 August 2024 鈥� 2 min read

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...

Dairy Talk - Robert Reed: 'A crash in milk price is not what we need'

Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devon, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cows via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres

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31 January 2026 鈥� 4 min read

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British Cattle Breeders Conference: Vision technologies and fertility

Katie Jones

30 January 2026 鈥� 1 min read

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British Cattle Breeders Conference: Does embryo transfer still have a place?

The usefulness of IVF as a breeding tool for livestock farmers was debated by a panel of vets and farmers on day two of the British Cattle Breeders Conference, held in Telford

Katie Jones

30 January 2026 鈥� 3 min read

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