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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: Ben Yates - "On the day we were doing our second cut, we reached 36degC in Somerset"

Ben Yates manages Mells Park Estate in Somerset, where he oversees a 400-cow unit and manages the 405-hectare (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

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27 August 2026 鈥� 3 min read

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