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Just wanted to ask does anyone have a source (and an idea of price) for a good long (approx 200mm) straw handling forceps? I've recently started a new job with Ai Services and part of the work is the delivery of straws to DIY customers. My everyday tweezers are fine for the odd straw from the...

Just watched a brilliant program on BBC Wales with Gareth Wyn Jones about the dairy industry. If you missed it catch it on the I-player.

At what age are most folk introducing silage to their weaned heifer calves? Mine are currently on chopped straw and heifer nuts (10-12 weeks old) and doing well. I'm just curious as to when others start onto silage.

Novel idea from just up the road! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36764203

Anyone testing colostrum with a refractometer, could you recommend which type to go for? There seem to be different variations online, none of which are specifically for use on a dairy farm, rather home brewing or salinity of aquarium water, both of which are obviously bigger industries than ours!

It would appear that the dairy industry has a new champion in the shape of Matt Baker on the One Show. Hopefully someone with more technical knowledge than me will be able to post the clip, but I've never seen anyone speak so passionately on TV about milk. Here's hoping this is the start of...

On now, talking about the benefits of whole milk.

Did anyone get this game for Christmas? As dairy farmers I think we should be encouraging as many people as possible to buy this for their kids / nephews & nieces / neighbours kids! Why? Well if you haven't yet played the game, it uses loads of CREAM!! So the more people who are splatting cream...

So, it looks as though the mighty superpower upon which we were building our respective agri businesses (to feed their ever expanding population) is going tits up and potentially dragging the rest of us down with it. Tata steel in South Wales is going to shut because of cheap Chinese steel...

I need as many expert and genuine opinions as possible on this one please. Our oldest cow (7 years old) went down today with what seems to be energy deficiency. She is currently on an extended dry period as she is carrying twins, her first set. Four previous calvings have gone without hitch...

I'm curious to know at what age most of you introduce silage to your weaned heifers? My first batch of calves this year are currently on chopped straw and ad-lib heifer nuts, they're about 3-4 months old and I'll soon be moving them from the calf house to the heifer shed and I'm wondering when...

It looks increasingly likely that 2016 will see some of the more forward thinking processors offering us the option of fixing a percentage of our milk at a set price. What percentage of your milk would you be prepared to fix and (realistically) what price would it need to be for you to sign up?

Recently I've been thinking about this, as in how much is my time worth? Not that we mere farming dogsbodys charge ourselves or record our time in hours (no doubt someone will tell me differently) but what's a fair hourly rate? All other professionals charge per hour or part thereof, like...

I've just had a dairy heifer calf PM'd after a sudden death. The result came back very quickly as a 360 degree torsion of the gut. She was almost 8 weeks old, a clinker of a calf by Wintersell Milo out of a Delta Canvas cow, never had any major health issues and would have been weaned this...

So how many of you are gonna put on your best cow onsie and go to Tyne and Weir to light a candle in loving memory of the dead bovine?!!

I have a lonely wee girl looking for some friends to play with!! She's a 3/4 bred Sweedish Red heifer, almost jet black in colour, now about two weeks old. She is by Skyhigh Samson and out of a 9400 litre dam. I've almost finished calving for now so I don't fancy having a single calf to rear!

Tonight on BBC1 NI @ 10:35, let's see who we know!!

Interesting programme on BBC2 now.

Following an experimental purchase of three baby Jersey heifers a couple of years back we have now started calving down, the first one is about a week fresh (Jersey heifer claf!) the other two will be coming in later on to a Lim bull. I've decided to sell these Jerseys off as we're focusing...