Investing For a Future in Dairy Farming

A commitment to the future of milk production for the next generation of the Dockeray family has involved investing in new dairy facilities and splitting the farm partnership and Single Farm Payment.

Malcolm Dockeray and his brother Nigel invested in a brand new parlour and slurry store to allow a new dairy herd to be set up at Kelsick House Farm, Abbeytown, near Wigton which is now run as a separate business from the nearby Kelsick Farm.

Grant aid for capital investment from the NWDA funded programme Farming Connect Cumbria helped divide the 460 acre family farming partnership at Abbeytown to allow better prospects for the next generation.

The brothers were farming together and, now each with their own sons, had always planned to establish two separate businesses.