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Free range milk

Free range milk

Three cheers for milk producer Neil Darwent for setting up Free Range Dairy to promote the value of pasture-based milk production in the UK. His objectives are to: Create a truly sustainable dairy industry Demonstrate that good welfare and profitability go hand in...
Grass good for the environment

Grass good for the environment

Soil beneath grassland stores up to 70t/ha of carbon (25t/ha more than arable crops), and acts as a valuable sink for carbon dioxide, one of the gases on the climate change blacklist. This was confirmed by Northern Ireland farmer Dr John Gilliland OBE last week, at...
Pasture drives profit

Pasture drives profit

Pasture to Profit Conference 250 young, successful, profitable, grassland farmers met at Worcester Rugby Club today to learn from each other and speakers from across the world. Key messages from the early speakers: Adrian Van Bysterveldt – Dairy New Zealand...
Be smarter with water

Be smarter with water

Jim Paice MP, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food launched LEAF’s latest farm management tool yesterday in London. The Water Management Tool helps farmers review their use of water and look at ways to conserve this precious yet vital commodity. In doing so they...
Is there a middle way for grazing?

Is there a middle way for grazing?

I was told off by Aussie grazing guru Frank Tyndall when we met on a dairy farm in Kent recently – for extolling the virtues of the New Zealand system which ‘forces’ dairy cows to graze down to the ground before moving to the next paddock. He believes that grazing...
ASDA buys High Sugar Grass for its farmers

ASDA buys High Sugar Grass for its farmers

Hooray for ASDA for encouraging its 13,500 milk, beef and lamb suppliers to embrace new grass breeding technology. They are offering to buy an extra acre bag of Aber High Sugar grass seed, for every ten acres purchased by the farmer from seed company British Seed...

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