Articles for Farmers

Producing healthy milk with no concentrates

Published on: August 8, 2016

Find out how Mat Boley runs a profitable dairy herd, but still has time to spend with his young family.

Study tour highlights – Day One

Published on: July 18, 2016

Thirty or so members joined the PFLA annual study tour in May, which this year travelled to inspirational farms in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. Here is a report from Day One.

Pasture for Life – Case Study – Neil Heseltine, Yorkshire Dales

Published on: June 7, 2016

Here is the second of the farmer case studies from the booklet ‘Pasture for Life – It can be done’ – The farm business case for feeding ruminants just on pasture.

New, free online health and welfare resource

Published on: May 9, 2016

Sustainable food and farming organisation A Greener World (AGW) has just launched Farm Health Online, an interactive website to help farmers care for their animals.

Pasture for Life – Case Study – Chris Jones, Cornwall

Published on: May 8, 2016

Early this year ‘Pasture for Life – It can be done – The farm business case for feeding ruminants just on pasture’ was published, including eight case studies of farmers who have submitted their figures to the Stocktake costings programme. Over the coming months we shall be running all the farmer stories here. To start, Chris Jones in Cornwall.