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With escalating fertiliser costs and the prospect of tight feed ingredient markets next winter, the importance of maximising feed output from your own resources will remain a priority for dairy farmers. Farmers Guardian reports.

Research carried out by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, University of Missouri and Teagasc has discovered the possibility of developing a diagnostic test for the early detection of bovine respiratory disease (BRD).

The retailer emphasised there would be no impact on producer prices but the drop comes as the other major retailers increase prices on the back of surging production costs

A portable ‘black box’, which can be used by farmers, vets and semen-processing laboratories to determine the quality of semen within minutes has been developed.

Dairy-Tech once again took place at Stoneleigh Park where visitors were able to view new technology and discuss the issues having an impact on the industry currently. Katie Jones, Ellie Layton, Toby Whatley and Jonathan Wheeler report.

Irish pasteurising equipment manufacturer Unison has launched a modular dairy vending system which includes pasteurising, chilling, intermediate bulk tanks and a customer vending station.

The application window for the Government’s Lump Sum Exit Scheme has now opened to help farmers exit the sector in a ‘managed’ way.

Exclusive contracts that only allow dairy farmers to sell milk to one buyer should be broken up to free up farmers to try direct selling, supplying local food businesses and engaging much more with communities where they live, according to farmers taking part in a workshop at Dairy-Tech.

More than 10,000 levy paying AHDB members have seized the chance to vote on how their money is spent by signing up to the board’s Shape the Future campaign.

Rosie Bennett, 27, is from Honiton, Devon. She is a dairy and poultry farmer’s daughter and works as a manager at an agricultural specialist accountants Evolution ABS Limited.