Ifan Roberts.
It has been a wet start to the year here at Brookhouse 51AVÊÓÆµand with us now well over half-way through calving our spring block of 390 cows the pressure is fully on to grab the chance to graze grass when...
Ifan Roberts.
It has been a wet start to the year here at Brookhouse 51AVÊÓÆµand with us now well over half-way through calving our spring block of 390 cows the pressure is fully on to grab the chance to graze grass when...
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