Roger Evans

Roger EvansRoger Evans farms at Lydbury North, Shropshire. The 300-acre farm has a dairy herd of 180 milkers (plus followers), a broiler chicken business and farmhouse bed and breakfast.
Roger previously chaired the farmer-owned milk business First Milk and continues as a director. He represents farmers on the Dairy UK board and acts as treasurer.

September 2021

Roger Evans discusses further farming matters in his latest Dairy Diary.

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July 2021

Roger Evans provides more musings in this Vet Times column from June 2021.

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May 2021

Roger Evans offers more insights from a farmer's perspective in his latest Dairy Diary.

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March 2021

Roger Evans discusses an area causing him concern in his latest Vet Times column.

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December 2020

Roger Evans closes his Vet Times Dairy Diary for 2020 with a glance at more topics affecting farms.

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October 2020

Roger Evans offers an overview of more topics from the farming world.

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September 2020

Roger Evans returns with thoughts on the pandemic and TB, in his latest Dairy Diary.

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June 2020

Roger Evans presents another of his Dairy Diary columns from Vet Times.

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December 2019

Roger Evans presents his final Dairy Diary column of 2019.

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October 2019

In his latest Dairy Diary, Roger Evans explains why he is angry the activities of some farmers bring bad publicity for everyone else.

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September 2019

Roger Evans discusses sales reps and activities particular to certain types of year in his latest Dairy Diary.

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June 2019

Roger Evans provides the latest in his series of Dairy Diary, this time with a look at organic farming.

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April 2019

Roger Evans offers his take on some of the issues impacting on farming in his latest Dairy Diary.

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February 2019

2018 will live in Roger Evans’ memory as a bad year for several reasons – from a longer winter and drought, to a TB breakdown and BSE threat.

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December 2018

Roger Evans discusses his love for hares, and his disappointment at not seeing them around his land anymore.

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November 2018

Roger Evans looks on how the countryside – specifically the demographics of people living there – have changed in his 50 years in farming.

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October 2018

Roger Evans discusses how he has taken his farm organic in his latest Dairy Diary.

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September 2018

Roger Evans discusses availability of antibiotics, including online, and the impact on antimicrobial resistance.

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August 2018

Roger Evans discusses some of the measures being taken by farmers in light of ongoing uncertainty with Brexit – and suggests they have endless implications for vets.

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July 2018

Roger Evans discusses the year so far in the latest of his farming columns for Veterinary Times.

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May 2018

Roger Evans provides more on the farmer's perspective in his latest Dairy Diary, this time discussing economics in the shrinking herd.

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April 2018

Roger Evans recalls instances when those who should have known better misinformed audiences about animal health matters.

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Roger Evans discusses food production, and his theory consumers will soon fall into three categories.

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March 2018

Roger Evans casts his mind back to his early days in farming, and wonders when things became more convoluted.

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December 2017

"Nothing has a greater impact on your business than a TB failure and absolutely nothing you can do can influence the outcome." – Roger Evans.

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November 2017

Roger Evans presents his latest Dairy Diary.

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October 2017

Roger Evans makes no apologies for returning to a regular discussion point in his latest Dairy Diary.

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September 2017

Roger Evans discusses seasonal difficulties on his farm in the latest Dairy Diary.

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August 2017

In his latest Dairy Diary, Roger Evans discusses why farmers are not entirely to blame for antimicrobial resistance and reflects on the brilliant service he received when his dog fell ill.

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July 2017

Roger Evans recalls how alarm bells started ringing when he heard dogs were being taken to one of his fields by their owners.

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