northern real farming conference

As part of the Northern Real Farming Conference, we ran a session discussing cow-with-calf dairying. The session included farmers running this type of system, as well as researchers studying it.

We aimed to capture cow-with-calf dairying from a farmer perspective, as well as discussing a research project run at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and data collected from farmer interviews as part of the current project:

Overview:

  • David Finlay: The Ethical Dairy, the journey so far

  • Gordon Whiteford: Lower Mill of Tynet Farm, cow-with-calf from a new entrant perspective

  • Professor Sigrid Agenäs: Cow and calf together in automatic milking systems

  • Dr Orla Shortall: Keeping calves with cows, farmer perspectives

Hosted by David Finlay, Cream O'Gallaway and other experts. Many dairy farmers are looking for alternative production methods and markets in a 'less but bett...