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Meet the 2020 Gold Cup dairy farmer finalists

Meet the 2020 Gold Cup dairy farmer finalists >More in © Tim Scrivener Six finalists are in the running for the 100th Gold Cup. Sponsored by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) and National Milk Records (NMR), the competition recognises excellence and efficiency in the dairy industry. The finalists reflect the wide range of systems used across the sector, with spring and all-year-round calving, robotic and parlour milking, organic and conventional production, and grazing and housed herds. Judges for the 2020 award – all dairy producers themselves – are RADBF chair Peter Alvis, NMR chair Trevor Lloyd, and 2018 Gold Cup winner Philip Metcalfe.

Batters tells Desert Island Discs of her life s calling

>More in Minette Batters © Geoff and Tordis Pagotto Minette Batters discovered her “life’s calling” in farming after ignoring advice from friends and family to pursue an alternative career. Desert Island Discs, the NFU president revealed that her friends told her she was “mad to do this” – but she decided to ignore them and insisted “I’d always wanted to farm”. “I felt very strongly that this was a life’s calling. This was something that I had always wanted to do and I was never, ever not going to do it,” Mrs Batters told host Lauren Laverne. Mrs Batters spoke about her life growing up on a tenant family farm in Wiltshire and how her father also discouraged her from following in his footsteps.

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