Posts Tagged ‘Nocton Dairy’

Nocton Dairy plans on hold.

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The Nocton Dairy plans have today been put on hold, Kissinggates.com reported on Nocton Dairy in an earlier post on UK Super Dairy. The dairy has generated a huge amount of local and national interest and it has to be said a lot has been negative. Developing a brown industrial site to build the UK’s largest dairy has a lot of benefits, not least collecting the milk from one location rather than travelling to several. However there have been a lot of animal health protests which do not believe it is ethical to house over 8,000 cattle in one location is not good for animal welfare.

This farm will create a  centre for over 80 local jobs and local farmers to supply the food stuffs. This will certainly draw benefits for farmers, however it does also highlight a social change for Farmer Wants a Wife. Smaller farms, particularly dairies which are being closed and swallowed up by larger dairies which is making it even harder for Single Farmers to find a wife.

Kissinggates.com targets the rural community and helps to singletons such as farmers to find a partner, this is of particular interest in the current economic climate where it is useful to share the stress and economic difficulties with a partner which is often quite hard in the rural community.

UK Super Dairy

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Recent news and discussions in the agricultural press has surrounded the planned super dairy at Nocton which is a reflection of a shift in agriculture towards US style intense farming. Nocton Dairy intends to have over 8,000 dairy cows and they aim to produce around 250,000 litres of milk / day from Nocton, Lincolnshire which they say will add a significant contribution to the local economy. One of the key selling points is the farm plans to employ over 80 local staff including a full time vet and to use local farmers to contract grow the feed requirements for Nocton.

This change and growth in farming is a significant shift which is worrying the smaller dairy farmers who are already struggling to compete. However the farm is a move forward in terms of innovation and catching up with other European markets, Kissinggates.com’s team were recently in Denmark researching the Horse Dating market which is a growing segment of the Danish online dating sector. Being a rural themed dating website Kissinggates.com is able to offer a wider offering than narrow pure horse dating nichie websites which means there are more like minded members at Kissinggates.com, the home of rural of dating. We also offer a country friends finding service which helps our members find friends as well as partners. When researching the dating sector in Denmark we found country friends dating is very popular addition. While in Denmark we also had an opportunity to visit a dairy farm which was using similar technologies to the Nocton dairy. We witnessed sand being used to bed the cattle which seemed very effective and hygiene so it will be interesting to see how it goes in Lincolnshire.