It has been a late season here in Cornwall with the rain and cold weather delaying the progress of everything
Calving got under way without incident this year at Houghton Lodge and by the end of February we had successfully delivered over 60 per cent of our calvings
This month Roger Evans gives his views on Welsh Government and discusses the recent farming protests, bovine TB, trees and speed limits
As a farmer discussing the weather is an unwritten rule. So, let's start there. Our farming practices have been tested by the relentless weather patterns endured
As a dairy farmer I am very familiar with the extreme highs and lows the market throws at us, and the enormous pressures experienced by businesses like my own during downturns
From Dairy Farmer editor, Katie Jones.
Well it's wet. I can only hope by the time you read this it's dry, or we're all in trouble
This month Roger Evans discusses after dinner speaking, water pollution and tells a tale of how a farmer got the better of the tax man
In Somerset, spring is trying to show its face between the rain showers. The warmer weather that we enjoyed recently gave us good growth rates of 34kg of dry matter/hectare per day
So my time on Defra's Bovine TB Partnership has unexpectedly come to an end. My three-year term ended and was disappointingly, for me, not extended