
Paul Tompkins
NFU dairy board chair Paul Tompkins farms with his wife Rachael in the Vale of York. Not from a farming background, Paul worked in the financial sector before meeting his wife and joining the family dairy...
Paul Tompkins
NFU dairy board chair Paul Tompkins farms with his wife Rachael in the Vale of York. Not from a farming background, Paul worked in the financial sector before meeting his wife and joining the family dairy...
Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana.
Silage quality has held up better than expected after a dry, difficult season – but with forage stocks running short, dairy farmers are being urged to calculate stocks and plan now to avoid winter feed gaps
Dairy farmers may not know for some time how the generally poor forage growing season may effect either milk supplies or prices over the autumn and winter said industry leaders at UK Dairy Day