Video: How 2024 autumn block-calving is getting on
© MAG/Martin Ward This is autumn-calver Ben Wade’s sixth season on his arable conversion in Leicestershire.
Having sold 50 cows at the end of the block he should finish calving in seven weeks.
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Farmers Weekly finds out how it’s gone so far for this 350-cow herd, based on Irish Holstein genetics.
FW deputy livestock editor Shirley Macmillan learns whether standing hay has worked for dry cows this year and about Ben’s plans to fully house cows.