Last week we did our maize in Staffordshire and getting it off with no trouble. Unlike last year, we've managed to get the cover crop in, using last year's grass seed. We will welcome this crop come...
Last week we did our maize in Staffordshire and getting it off with no trouble. Unlike last year, we've managed to get the cover crop in, using last year's grass seed. We will welcome this crop come...
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
Rising productivity in modern dairy herds can come at a cost, with nutritional stress now a key driver of poor fertility in high yielding herds
Income from the sale of milking heifers influences sire selection on a Lincolnshire dairy where functional, medium-sized cows suit the system at Bassingthorpe Holsteins