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Despite being encouraged to train as an agricultural engineer, Andrew Neilson was never in any doubt that he would come back home to the family dairy farm. Lynsey Clarke reports.

Blaming coronavirus’ impact on the food service sector, the processor has announced a 2ppl price drop with immediate effect and plans to delay March milk payments, sparking anger among farmers.

Correct mineral nutrition is critical to cow performance, both in terms of improving milk output and reducing the incidence of many common health disorders.

As dairy farmers turn to other countries to source replacement stock, Richard Halleron looks at the potential impacts of disease and Brexit on some of these markets.

March 2020 Dairy Farming edition

Block calving 430 cows means a lot of calves have to be attended to all at once, and to ensure full attention a strict colostrum protocol has been adopted on one Welsh farm. Debbie James has the story.

Production in December was 1228 million litres, which was down 13.00m litres and 1% on last year. It was also within 1% of 2017.

The Kite progressive dairy operator’s conference, Warrington, was themed ‘revolution not evolution’ and sustainability was one of the key topics. Hannah Noble, finds out more.

A local farm shop will launch its first online delivery service this week in a bid to create jobs for those who have found themselves out of work amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Stockpiling animal medicines is unnecessary, costly and, in the case of prescription only products, illegal, theÌýAnimal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority has warned.