For most small-scale farmers, the biggest challenge is deciding where to start, beginning with what the land can ...

Mothering Sunday is one of the traditional times we pause and celebrate the role that mothers play in our lives – but not all mothers will be celebrating. On dairy farms across Britain, mother cows ...

New Zealand’s Massey University senior lecturer in agricultural systems, Warren Anderson, told the Australasian Dairy Science Symposium in Sydney last week that in his research the “parasitic cows” ...

“We need to support countries in looking to the future of how they feed their populations without damaging human health, animals, and our planet,” she said. The report concludes that intensive farming ...

Sheree and Dylan Ditchfield do things differently on their dairy farm at Wendonside, Southland. When short, cold days slow grass growth, their cows get hay – so much hay that there’s extra to lie on.

One of the most alarming findings is that factory farming is costing the world an average of 1.8 years of healthy life per ...

Sir, – It’s taken as given that there has been exponential growth in the Irish dairy herd in recent years and reducing it is central to reducing Ireland’s emissions to meet 2030 targets. However, in ...

Countryfile viewers were left fuming after the show featured a segment on a family's intensive dairy farming practices. The latest episode took a look back at past segments, including some from 2021, ...

More cows could be kept indoors for the whole of their productive lives, animal welfare campaigners have warned, after the BBC found a rise in “megafarms”. Freedom of Information (FOI) requests by the ...

A Taranaki dairy farmer has been fined $40,000 and put under two years intensive supervision for breaking the tails of 136 cows and docking the tails of 26 cows. Lane Rodney Wiggins, 53, had earlier ...