The cow comes first
	WELL over 250 farmers attended a number of dairy seminars last month with venues throughout Devon and Cornwall, hosted by animal feed compounders Harpers Home Mix Ltd, and with a theme of 'The Economics of Feeding Cows at Grass''.

Better quality forage the best way forward

THIS time last year, I quoted one or two weather predictions for the summer of 2007 and why, because we had been largely promised another summer in line with that of 2006, we should, in addition to buying Factor 35 by the lorry load, be considering growing more forage crops in order to get us all through what was going to be a trying time indeed.

	Better quality forage way to profitability
	HUSBAND and wife team Allan and Emma Miller (AR and EJ Miller) of Blackwater Farm, W. Bourton, Gillingham, Dorset are firmly of the opinion that there are only two ways for them to improve the profitability of their farming enterprise - to produce more milk per acre and to grow better quality home grown forage - and more of it.

A taxing year for the maize seed trials

THIS is the fourth consecutive year that I have reported the results of our own maize trials that have been conducted throughout the south west region, this year being one month later than usual due to the late harvest in some cases.