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The BBC’s
Countryfile programme recently featured a fully-housed, high-yielding dairy herd in Northern Ireland which is fed on a zero-grazing system.
I tuned in because I’m always interested to see anything about dairy farming in the mainstream media, and I was intrigued to learn more about a way of farming which is seemingly opposite to our own low-input grazing system.
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Farmers Weekly Opinion writer
Liz Haines is in a joint venture on a dairy farm in Staffordshire, converting the all-year-round calving herd to a split block-calving grazing system.
Jun 03 2021 The summer driving season in the U.S. is about to start. Traditionally, the upcoming Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of the summer driving season in the U.S. For a variety of reasons (weather, summer road trips, school vacations, etc.), Americans tend to drive more in the summer than in the winter, and this year, we have the added dimension of the country coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the movement restrictions and mask requirements have been lifted across the United States in recent weeks (in particular for the people that are vaccinated) and the expectation is that it is going to be busy on the road.