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Cycling Entertainment for our Organic Bulls & Heifers! ‘Le Tour’ is now just over a week away and we are planning how it is affecting our deliveries in Harrogate. Significantly, being the answer! However, on the flip side, yellow bikes have appeared along the road to Middleham in Wensleyday and the racing will pass within a […]
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Inseparable… Twin Sisters in the Acorn Dairy Herd The benefits of being an organic cow at Acorn Dairy are numerous… including not being separated from your beloved twin sister. Our herd of 210 cows is cared for in smaller groups, which are usually arranged around lactation for recording and feeding purposes. Seen here are two 3yr old sisters who enjoy a relationship to rival any human bond. […]
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Extending of our Comfy Cow Tracks A cow lives on her feet for most of the time and we take foot care very seriously. They are heavy creatures with a relatively small hoof to take the weight. Barry, Phil, Richard and Raido regularly give the herd a pedicure to keep hooves neat and in good order. There […]
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A Happy Event at Acorn Dairy Just as our wholesale milk delivery vans were returning from Newcastle and Harrogate on Thursday afternoon at one end of the farm, at the other, one of our heifers was calving and gave us some beautiful twins. However these two little calves look less related than Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito. Our herdsman Richard […]
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To Irrigate, Inject,Tanker or Umbilical…That is the question One activity you may not picture when thinking about how your milk is produced, is slurry handling. This is liquid heaven for soil and is a key nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium source for our grass, as we obviously do not use artificial fertilisers in organic farming. Depending on the weather, the maturity of the […]
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