Rain or shine, farmers get up before dawn to care for their cows. Processors and manufacturers adhere to stringent rules to ensure that consumers can pick up a wholesome bottle of fresh milk from the shop every day. Vets will drive up to the farm in the middle of the night should a cow require urgent care. 

Stand space bookings are now open for Dairy-Tech, the brand new technical one-day event announced earlier this month by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF). Held on 7 February 2018 at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, Dairy-Tech will be a new concept for the dairy industry, focusing on science, technology, and the cutting edge tools to support a wide range of systems.

This month 2016 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Simon Bugler from Dorset highlights the performance of sires used on the herd and reflects on lessons learnt from a trip to the US.

Major reforms have been announced by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) at a briefing held in London today (6 March). A comprehensive review of the charity’s activities will see it narrow its focus to areas in which it can offer unique benefits;  it will cut peripheral or duplicated activities and also step up its influencing work.

This month 2016 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Simon Bugler from Dorset updates us on herd health and feeding management while he reflects on various milk production systems.

RABDF is celebrating after receiving a £2,500 gift from The Patron’s Fund, the charitable fund set up to acknowledge the work of the charitable organisations for which Her Majesty, The Queen acts as a Patron, on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

This month 2016 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Simon Bugler from Dorset explains calving intervention policy at Pilsdon Dairy Farm and looks forward to 2017 with some trepidation.