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Following significant investment in his family's dairy farm, Andrew Leggot is now focusing on achieving small improvements in efficiency

The installation of robots in 2019 paved the way for David Luxton and his family to realise system benefits throughout the farm by managing fixed costs more efficiently and focussing on generating more milk with lower operating costs. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian reports.

From robots boosting profits on the last remaining prison farm in Britain to the removal of Winter Fuel Payments and the impact it could have on rural pensioners - these are six farming stories not to miss this week on FG

Britain's last remaining prison-run dairy farm has installed two milking robots, a move that has significantly increased milk yield from its herd of 120 pedigree Holsteins

Three key learnings from innovative robotic milking transformations at Myerscough College's Lodge Farm

Herd numbers have more than doubled over the past decade at Kaemuir Farm, near Falkirk, increasing the emphasis on forage production for the Orr family and prompting an investment in an umbilical slurry handling system

Identifying and addressing lameness pinch points as part of a structured review has helped one dairy farming family reduce cases by almost half

A plan to increase the milking herd size from 270 to 330 head through replacement breeding is well underway at the Morgan family's Graig Olway Farm

Rumen health is a critical component in the ‘wheel for success' for robotic milking herds

Moving from an eight-unit abreast parlour to milking robots has brought change, opportunity and growth, but also significant adjustment to Tim Jeynes and his family