Farm productivity must improve, with an increase in yield from forage of just 600 litres a cow offering an extra £60-£70 million return to British dairy producers, and added benefits from more valuable constituency payments.

Finalists in the 2017 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup competition have been announced and include two block calving grassland-based herds, two high-production Holstein herds, a Channel Island herd and a grass-based block calving herd milked once-a-day.

As we await the shortlist of finalists in the 2017 NMR/RADBF Gold Cup next month, we ask the judges what they are looking for in a winner under the new ‘all inclusive’ format.

A report outlining the case for UK dairy farming to maintain access to EU labour in the short term, and improve the pipeline of domestic labour in the long term, was presented to Defra’s Access to Labour Team by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers in London today (3 October). 

The announcement of the first ever Dairy Industry Woman of the Year Award winner brought delegates flocking to this year’s Women in Dairy Conference (Wednesday 20 September) making it the most successful yet

The first ever Dairy Industry Woman of the Year Award has seen an unprecedented number of nominations with Cornish dairy farmer and NFU group chair Bridget Whell, livestock sustainability consultant Jude Capper and 2016 Devon county woman farmer of the year Nicky Lockyer announced as the finalists.

2010 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Mike King from Gloucestershire updates British Dairying on the latest farm developments since his last article in October 2011.

A final call for applications has been issued by RABDF ahead of this year’s Entrepreneurs in Dairying course, starting again mid-September at four colleges across the UK.