The Coronavirus pandemic has caused huge upheaval in the milk market and had a marked impact on the fortunes of local dairy farmers. Photos in newspapers of milk being tipped down the drain on farms, have appeared alongside empty milk aisles in the supermarkets. This has led anxious shoppers to seek out local suppliers and…
The Agriculture Bill was introduced to set out the way in which agriculture will be funded after leaving the EU, with the introduction of a new “public money for public goods” payment scheme putting the focus on animal welfare, the environment and sustainability. The Bill recently had its third reading in the House of…
It was the opening day of the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday and I was there for one of the first sessions called ‘Diversity, inclusion and combating polarisation.’ It was talking about how sexism, racism and homophobia makes part of our communities feel they can’t be part of farming, and what new and innovative ways of…
It’s been another good year for Free Range Dairy Network; sales of Pasture Promise free range milk continue to grow and we have welcomed new farmers to the fold. But, milk (and meat) has taken a real bashing in 2019 and many farmers have been left wondering why they are being blamed for everything that’s wrong…
Free Range Dairy Network is looking for Tree Angels to help us count trees on farms, help with maintenance and we can provide space to plant trees and hedges.
At this year’s Welsh Dairy Show, on October 29th, Free Range Dairy Network (FRD) will be launching a new collaboration with Welsh dairy farmer Nick Roch, to win badly needed recognition and value for ‘free range milk’, produced on dairy farms in Wales. According to data from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), 50 dairy farmers…
The launch of our new website (which I hope you approve of by the way) has prompted me to reflect on how far Free Range Dairy Network has come since the original website was first launched in 2011. Back then free range milk was just an idea in my head, born out of frustration with the…
Cup North, a major coffee festival outside of London will be the first coffee festival to use Free Range Milk across the event. The milk bearing the Free Range Dairy Pasture Promise label will be supplied by Stephenson’s Food & Dairy from Morecambe in Lancashire. Manchester is seeing a huge rise in coffee culture and whilst people enjoy choosing…
Free Range Dairy is launching an action today to gather support for pasture based dairy farmers in the UK, especially our more traditional pasture based dairy farmers. We have been running a Pasture Promise pledge for farmers for many years but now we want everyone to show their support for clearer labelling on their milk, so…