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Dairy Talk - Ifan Roberts: "Calving has been going relatively well this spring without too many issues"

Ifan Roberts is a new entrant who has established a contract farming agreement milking 500 block calving cows in Cheshire, and is aiming to improve the land farmed, encourage others to participate in the industry and deliver attractive returns to his stakeholders

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28 April 2026 鈥� 4 min read

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It has been a wet start to the year here at Brookhouse Farm and with us now well over half-way through calving our spring block of 390 cows the pressure is fully on to grab the chance to graze grass when...

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