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Having taken over the farm tenancy taken on by his father in 1966, Bruce Mackie farms some 30 miles north of Aberdeen, where he milks 250 cows through four Lely robots on an organic system and produces yoghurt on the farm under the Rora Dairy brand.

A growing number of farmers in Northern Ireland are moving towards autumn- and winter-calving as a way pf maximising milk from grazed grass, particularly at the end of the cow’s lactation. Richard Halleron speaks to a farmer who is doing just that.

Dairy farmers supplying Mller who meet the conditions for Mller Advantage1 will receive a milk price of 41.5ppl from 1 June 2022, a 1.5ppl increase.

How you seal your silage clamp can have a huge effect on the speed and efficiency of the clamp-filling process, the quality of forage ultimately produced and the labour hours needed to maintain it once it is opened for feed-out.

High costs continue to drive the global market, keeping supplies tight. Cedric Porter reports.

For share farming couple Vanessa and Bart van de Ven, public perception of dairy farming in New Zealand is cause for concern. Chris McCullough finds out what they are doing to counter the negativity.

Be flexible and tailor pre and post-emergence sprays to specific weed burdens on fields advises independent agronomist Richard Cromie. Dairy Farmer reports.

At a recent AHDB webinar, Sara Pedersen, cattle health and production specialist at 51AVÊÓƵDynamics, explained how recording data on farms can improve foot health within the dairy herd. Katie Fallon reports.

The cooperative said prices for all EU dairy commodities has continued to increase significantly allowing them to deliver a ’substantial’ rise

The Cox family’s focus on genomics and genomic testing has resulted in an ‘impressive performance’ in NMR’s latest annual production report. Rebecca Jordan reports.