Dairy
Dairy profits recover in 2020 according to Old Mill report
Dairy farmers’ profits recovered in 2019/20 after falling in 2018/19, largely due to reduced purchased feed costs, according to the...
Dairy
Dairy
First Milk increases its milk price for November
First Milk has announced that its November milk price will increase by 0.50p/L. This means its liquid standard litre will...
Dairy
Dairy webinars to allow farmers to question government ministers
Dairy farmers will get the opportunity to hear about future farming policy and quiz government minsters and experts in a...
Agri-Business
Gain places ‘temporary hold’ on some ruminant feed lines
Gain Animal Nutrition has placed a “temporary hold” on the sale of some bagged ruminant feed product lines as a...
Agri-Business
Achieving a 70% reduction in ammonia emissions with a circular shed system
A new shed system for separating mineral flows and converting emissions into value has been unveiled in the form of...
Agri-Business
GDT index lifts in latest auction for back-to-back increases
The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) index has lifted in its latest auction to record back-to-back increases. The most recent auction...
Agri-Business
Pics: First ‘fully autonomous’ zero-grazing machine unveiled
The first concept for the fully autonomous harvesting and feeding of fresh grass has been launched by dairy robotics firm...
Agri-Business
DAERA publishes ‘Farm Business Data’ handbook
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has published its Farm Business Data 2020 planning handbook. The...
Agri-Business
Fonterra sells its dairy farms in China in $555 million deal
Fonterra has agreed to sell its China farms for a total of $555 million (€313.74 million), the New Zealand dairy...
Dairy
RUAS makes decision on 2020 Winter Fair plans
The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS), which organises the North’s annual flagship dairy show, has made a decision on whether...
Beef
Current technologies cannot deliver half of 2050 carbon emissions reduction goal
An independent report assessing the carbon intensity of all UK livestock production systems has identified that currently available technologies cannot...
Dairy
2020 Dairy Industry Woman of the Year winner announced
Cheshire dairy farmer Karen Halton has scooped this year’s prestigious Dairy Industry Woman of the Year award at the virtual...
Agri-Business
Women in Dairy conference: Covid-19 is our chance to create a sustainable supply chain
How often, or when was the last time, you had a conversation about your farm’s emissions with your feed company?...
Dairy
Calf-rearing: ‘I don’t want the calf to ever know I’m not here’
Reducing heifer calf mortality could lower costs and improve profitability on many UK and Irish dairy farms; yet on some...
Agri-Business
NI ‘one of Europe’s highest uptakes’ as World School Milk Day celebrates 20 years
School milk schemes in Northern Ireland last year slurped up almost one million litres of the white stuff, according to...
Dairy
Average milk yield up by nearly 300L/cow
Figures from Kite Consulting’s Milk Monitor Dairy Herd Costings show that average milk yield increased by nearly 300L/cow, in the...
Dairy
Dairy industry facing a shortage of workers after government decision
A last-ditch attempt to get dairy workers included on the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) Shortage Occupation List (SOL) has been...
Beef
TB eradication strategy 'the only light at the end of a very dark tunnel' for farmers
“Many farmers will spend their lives fighting what feels like a losing battle against bovine TB, a devastating disease that...
