English dairy farmer’s tale urging caution when expanding

At the Positive Farmer event, farmer Andrew Brewer and his wife Claire from Cornwall in England, gave a sobering and very personal take on disease risk when expanding a herd.

The Brewers are now milking 680 cows and are focused on the future, but have certainly learned some valuable lessons from the past.

“In 1997 our farm was a mixed dairy, beef and sheep enterprise,” Andrew Brewer began. “After some consideration we decided that we were ideally suited to focus on an extended grazing dairy farm.”