The drought is really having an effect on the grass growth out in the fields and the cows are running out of feed. Unfortunately, we’ve had to open up a silage bunker, which would normally be fed in the winter months, in order to have enough food for the herd. This impacts the milk and […]
In 2013 we were visited by Anna Hill from BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today. She was keen to discover what had prompted Jonny and Dulcie to travel to France in 2012 with a dream of bringing the Montbéliarde breed of cow back to the UK and making a French style brie in Suffolk. It just […]
On our dairy farm fields we are in the thick of silage and hay making, which will be used to feed the cows and young stock over the coming winter months. Finally, we have had a little rain over here in the dry east which has allowed some of the spring crops such as triticale […]
What’s new this month on our raw milk dairy farm? Greener burps! We’re taking part in a trial of a new garlic pellet cattle feed which aims to reduce the methane produced by cow burbs. Initial results from the research involving 10k cows across the UK, suggest that methane is reduced by around 30% with […]
