Starting a Cow-Calf Micro Dairy — A Practical Guide
Everything you need to know before you spend a penny.
Most people thinking about starting a micro dairy spend months trying to piece together information from forums, YouTube videos and farming books written for a different era. This guide is different.
It is written by someone running a working cow-calf micro dairy right now — at Pentrefelin Dairy in North Wales — and it covers the real questions honestly.
What's inside:
How the cow-calf system actually works — and why it makes commercial sense
The daily management routine: milking, calf separation, calving
Milk processing step by step — from churn to bottled and labelled
Compliance and registration — exactly what you need to do and in what order
Realistic startup costs with honest UK figures
Regenerative grazing basics for small farms
How to sell direct and build a farm brand people will pay a premium for
The most common mistakes and how to avoid them
Who this is for:
Farmers looking to diversify. Smallholders with land and ambition. People seriously considering leaving conventional employment to build something on the land. Anyone who wants the honest picture before they commit.
This guide will not tell you it is easy. It will tell you it is possible — and exactly how to approach it.
27 pages. Instant download. Written from five years of real practice.