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.

A last call for entries for the 2017 RABDF Dairy Student Award has been issued ahead of the deadline of 3 March.

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.

The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers carried out an independent survey* in 2016 which concluded that EU-labour was making a significant contribution to dairy farms and that farmers are clearly concerned that Brexit will have a major impact on their future sourcing of skilled EU-labour.

This month 2016 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Simon Bugler from Dorset explains the heifer rearing system at Pilsdon Dairy Farm and the changes being considered.