Farmers Weekly Awards 2020: Dairy Farmer of the Year
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Robert Mallett, Dickson and Mallett, Northleaze Farm, Highworth, Swindon
Robert Mallett is the 2020
Farmers Weekly Dairy Farmer of the Year.
His approach to dairy farming is proof that high-yielding herds can produce milk economically from grazed grass and good quality silage, with autumn-calving Holsteins converting every ounce of nutrition from grassland to milk.
Robert, who farms with his wife Maria and son David, demonstrates that purchased feed can be offset with grazed grass or forage to push milk from forage to a remarkable level.
From three-times-a-day milking, the herd has an annual average yield of 11,407 litres, and 4,390 litres of those come from forage.