Becky Fenton.
As I write this, we've just finished our first few fields of silaging here in Cheshire – around 30 acres where the grazing fields had got ahead of us, so we decided to put them in the clamp. We'll...
Becky Fenton.
As I write this, we've just finished our first few fields of silaging here in Cheshire – around 30 acres where the grazing fields had got ahead of us, so we decided to put them in the clamp. We'll...
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