Alex and Jo Gidlow
Building projects and long-term planning have seen brother and sister Alex and Jo Gidlow pushing things forward at Springwood Farm, Derbyshire. Running at 500 cows, the milking herd is yielding 11,400kg...
Alex and Jo Gidlow
Building projects and long-term planning have seen brother and sister Alex and Jo Gidlow pushing things forward at Springwood Farm, Derbyshire. Running at 500 cows, the milking herd is yielding 11,400kg...
Farming 405 hectares (1,000 acres), a mix of tenanted and owned land at Gatcombe Farm, near Seaton, Devon, Robert Reed and his family milk 350 all-year-round calving Holstein cows via five robots and are achieving average yields of 12,000 litres
Rising productivity in modern dairy herds can come at a cost, with nutritional stress now a key driver of poor fertility in high yielding herds
Income from the sale of milking heifers influences sire selection on a Lincolnshire dairy where functional, medium-sized cows suit the system at Bassingthorpe Holsteins