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.

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.