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RABDF - Milk Digest is the regular newsletter to all members of the RABDF. Below is just an overview of the articles available, more is available in the members area.

Milk Digest March 2009November 2009

  • RABDF calls for accurate cheese labelling
  • RABDF NMR Gold Cup
  • RABDF GEA Energy Efficiency Award
  • Profitability Key to Securing Next Generation
  • Membership Renewals
  • Dairy Event and Livestock Show 2009
  • RABDF NMR Gold Cup
  • Farm health Planning Award
  • New RABDF Award
  • Are you renewing your electricty contract?
  • Conference
  • Diary Dates

July 2009

  • Dairy Event and Livestock Show - relocates
  • Lady Byford resumes RABDF presidency
  • Dairy Event and Livestock Show tickets 2009
  • Neospirosis
  • RABDF renews call for farmers to halt livestock imports
  • Progressing Pathomilk
  • The RABDF NMR Gold Cup open days
  • New at the Dairy Event and Livestock Show 2009
  • RABDF/Dairy Crest Dairy Student of the Year Award 2009
  • Representing you
  • RABDF Farm Energy Efficiency Award
  • Diary Dates

May 2009

  • Responsibilty and Cost Sharing
  • RCS - have your say
  • Dairy Event and Livestock Show update
  • Complacency Costs: health update
  • Milking Grass for Profit
  • RABDF unites with dairy farming bodies
  • Geronimo
  • Representing you...
  • RABDF Princess Royal Award made to livestock nutritionist
  • AGM Notice
  • Diary Dates

March 2009

  • RABDF calls for Ofmilk
  • TB Eradication
  • Save Energy - measure and monitor your electricity bill
  • RABDF working for British dairy farmers - Grass farm walks
  • RABDF calls for livestock import ban
  • Geronimo
  • New RABDF Council members
  • Bluetongue
  • RABDF NMR Gold Cup
  • RABDF AGM
  • Diary Dates

Click the publication dates below to reveal their overview of articles available.

January 2009

  • The RABDF New Year message
  • RABDF working for you
  • Mastitis: the RABDF survey and Pathomilk update
  • RABDF on TB with Hilary Benn
  • Commercial dairy goat farming: a viable enterprise
  • Geronimo
  • RABDF College Lecturers Day
  • Representing you...
  • RABDF Prince Philip Award goes to Ecolab
  • Bluetongue Update
  • RABDF Council member awarded BBC Farmer of the Year
  • Diary Dates

November 2008

  • The RABDF Retirement Provisions Survey
  • RABDF NMR Gold Cup
  • Dairy Event and Livestock Show 2008 Round-up
  • Careers in the dairy food chain
  • Reducing energy: two services officially launched
  • Towards 2009..........
  • The RABDF Farm Health Planning Award 2008
  • Pathomilk progress
  • Changes to cattle tracing system
  • Bluetongue Update
  • Diary Dates

September 2008

  • RABDF campaigning to stamp out bTB
  • Chairman's Statement
  • Dairy Event and Livestock Show
  • Dairy UK Conference
  • RABDF/Dairy Crest Dairy Student of the Year Award
  • Welcome Tom
  • Would you like to join RABDF Council
  • Bluetongue Update
  • Diary Dates

July 2008

  • Towards CAP Reform 2013
  • RABDF president re-elected
  • Improving communications
  • RADBF Gold Cup winners
  • DairyCo: demonstrating return on spend
  • Farm Health Planning
  • The RADBF Princess Royal Award
  • Bluetongue Update

April 2008

  • The Milk Roadmap
  • New Service Launched
  • How to Milk Grass for Profit
  • The Dairy Event and Livestock Show
    2008 update
  • RABDF welcomes Welsh badger cull
  • bTB pre-movement tests cost £15 per animal RABDF survey findings
  • Bluetongue update
  • RABDF diary dates

February 2008

  • The Dairy Event and Livestock Show 2008
  • New RABDF Council Members
  • Bluetongue
  • RABDF continues to focus on the next generation
  • The RABDF Farm Health Planning Award sponsored by Metacam for Cattle
  • RABDF working for British dairy farmers - Milking grass for profit
  • The Scholarship Programme Conference
  • Euro Dairy Survey
  • Many thanks
  • The milk contract - your most important farm document
  • RABDF diary dates

December 2007

  • RABDF continues to support British dairy farmers
  • RABDF/NMR Gold Cup
  • NVZs - the swingeing implications
  • Cost Sharing: RABDF Calls for major rethink
  • RABDF welcomes chief scientist's support for badger cull
  • Commercial dairy goat farming: a viable enterprise
  • Geronimo
  • RABDF/Defra Farm Health Planning Award 2007
  • 60 Years of Farming
  • RABDF diary dates

September 2007

  • RABDF call for processors to stop living in the past
  • Statement from the RABDF chairman on FMD
  • Dairy Event 2007 - what's on show
  • Dairy Farmer of the Future Finalists announced
  • Dairy UK Conference
  • Thinking about joining RABDF Council?
  • RABDF calls for farm-gate prices to reflect production changes
  • HRH The Princess Royal to open the Dairy Event 2007
  • RABDF members tickets

July 2007

  • RABDF calls for united bid for bTB eradication strategy
  • RABDF chairman participates in badger surveillance study
  • New RABDF president
  • The ISG Report: Why did it conclude no to badger culling?
  • Team management: a key driver to success
  • RABDF helps draw up dairy road map
  • Lucky winners
  • Milk price campaigner receives royal awar
  • Dairy Event 2007

May 2007

  • RABDF and NFU call for immediate action to counter 3.42ppl average loss
  • The early grazing farm walks
  • RABDF opposes Responsibility and Cost Sharing
  • Pathomilk
  • Article on the RABDF Chairman Lyndon Edwards
  • Missing waste exemption form
  • RABDF diary dates
  • RABDF and MPs take frustrations to Brussels
  • RABDF focuses on the next generation



Identifying the True Cost of Family Labour 2008

The RABDF have championed the idea of farmers using the real cost of family labour in their production costs to ensure that they do not subsidise the cost of production. RABDF have recently updated their study Identifying the true costs of family labour and is available here.

To find out more about the study please visit the news pages or click on the publication.

As part of the RABDFs continuous lobbying activities on a fair price for farmers for the price of milk, RABDF have produced a range of important publications in recent years.

Notably in 2006 and 2007 RABDF collaborated with NFU to produce British Milk – What Price. These documents have been used extensively throughout the industry as a minimum figure for cost of production of milk:

The RABDF have long been supporters of including the cost of family labour in the cost of milk production.