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I have recently returned from an interesting few days visiting farms and conservation projects in Latvia.

June is the month that our new Holland telehandler goes back after its year long stay as part of the Up to Speed scheme with the Prince’s Countryside Fund.

May used to be my favourite month, but it is becoming a very busy one. Too busy to properly enjoy, what with turnout and silaging, along with all the tasks which are required in preparation.

Hello everyone. I am not sure what to write for my initial In Your Field piece, but I suppose I should introduce myself first.

Fraser Jones milks 1,450 Holstein Friesians and employs 37 people across three sites near Welshpool. Herd health, sustainability and welfare are key priorities for Fraser, who is a Disease? Not On My Farm! ambassador for MSD Animal Health.

Following the swedes and turnips, the original plan was to disc the ground to prepare the seedbed for barley, but it was too hard and we had to plough.

Dan Burdett and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place near Edenbridge, Kent.

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 180 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.

Lambing’s almost over (at last) and calving is well through here at Hundleshope.