Blog - Dairy

This week from Farmers Guardian editor, Olivia Midgley (September 29)

In the first of a series of articles from Rory Dean, a self-employed, large animal vet who practices in the Kaipara region of Northland, New Zealand, we hear about the challenges being faced by New Zealand dairy farmers

Ifan Roberts is herd manager at Houghton Lodge, Leicestershire, which is one of the farms managed by Evolution Farming

Dairy Farmer editor, Katie Jones, looks at what the main topics of conversation at UK Dairy Day were

Michael Oakes, dairy farmers and NFU dairy board chair, discusses the findings of the NFU's recent Dairy Production Intentions survey

This month Roger Evans writes about the problems caused by dogs running free on farmland, and also gives us his thoughts on early mornings

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 200 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built

We have now dried all the cows off, switched off the water heater and ice bank, ready for some much-needed downtime away from the farm.