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Amy Eggleston is a fifth-generation dairy farmer from Leicestershire. Her family and farm team are milking 620 Friesian cows on a New Zealand-based grazing, spring calving unit. She showcases her farming journey on social media (@thedairydaughter) and also runs Pastures Green, which is a rural marketing business.

With a target of keeping clamped silage losses to below 5 per cent, the Halton family has assessed all aspects of silage making from cutting to clamping.

It comes after unrest from supermarket dairy suppliers as aligned prices lagged behind the non-aligned

Research has shown even pasture fed cows are short of beta carotene at some point during the breeding cycle.

Arla Foods UK was looking to boost branded sales, improving the profitability of the liquid milk category and look to export markets for the first time

It comes as Freshways announced a May price rise breaking through the 40ppl barrier and called on retailers to step up on price rises

Good silage will be key to making the most of good milk prices in the face of high fertiliser and feed costs.

The Black Sea’s established ‘stranglehold’ on the UK’s organics market has sparked industry concern about the sector’s future.

Gisburn Auction Marts has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,819 after an employee was fatally injured while helping to load a dairy bull into a lorry.

The farming community has reacted angrily to a recent study that claims badger culling had little impact of incidences of bovine TB.