Brought up on a dairy farm in Carmarthenshire, Anna has always been immerssed in dairy calf management. She now has a contract farm with a dairy herd of 300 spring block dairy cows.
Her Nuffield project looks at where the UK sits in terms of dairy calf welfare, and how it could be improved.
The management of calves is one of the industry’s main sources of criticism; both the treatment of dairy bull calves and the separation of cows and calves have been attacked by dairy sceptics. My 2021 Nuffield project “Can the UK improve the ethics of its dairy calf management whilst retaining profitability?” will try to find workable solutions to these issues
