• Advice for lean times

    ON MOST mixed stock farms the pressure is on to try to get cattle out as forage and feed supplies become more limited each day.

  • Gearing up for Carlisle

    CHAROLAIS breeders from all over the UK and further afield will soon be flocking Carlisle for the May run of bull sales and for one local family, the Vaseys of the Edenhurst herd, it is also one of the highlights of the year.

  • Females to the fore at Townfoot

    PEDIGREE AND commercial Limousin breeders will have their final opportunity to buy, or sell, a new stock bull ready to work in the summer when, hopefully, cows are put out to grass.

  • Love of dairying keeps family in the game for a fifth generation

    IF you could choose anywhere in Britain to dairy farm, the chances are you wouldn't choose to farm where the Waddells farm.

  • Muirside's red and whites keep the herd in the black

    THE manager of an Ayrshire herd which has been three times the highest production herd in Scotland, says breeding high yielding cows is not all about using the highest production bulls.

  • Gary Mitchell's mighty move from beef to milk

    At a time when many milk producers were opting to come out of the dairy industry, a brave move from previous arable and beef producer, Gary Mitchell, in to the sector is now beginning to show returns.

  • Attention to detail proves key

    Turning a traditional 6000-litre 90-cow commercial dairy herd into an award-winning 300-cow pedigree unit boasting a rolling yield average of 12,000 litres plus at 4.28% BF and 3.22% P within 10-years is no mean feat but it is perfectly possible under superior management.

  • Prize winning silage at Finzean Estate

    For many producers, silage making has been a tricky task over the last few years, with many struggling to get decent yields let alone a decent quality of silage due some of the wettest summer months on record.

  • Grassland success on NI's Ards Peninsula

    Sam Chesney runs a 150 Limousin suckler cow herd, bred to Limousin and Belgian Blue bulls, on his 190-acre Coolbrae Farm, near Kircubbin on the beautiful green Ards Peninsula of Northern Ireland.

  • Organic dairy herd keeps pace

    Attention to detail, good stockmanship and quality nutrition are essential in achieving a 9000 litre rolling herd average at Rob and Andrena Shanks' 180-cow organic dairy unit at Queenscairn, Kelso.