The Feizor herd from Yorkshire/Lancashire border near Settle, were crowned as the winners of the 2025 Holstein UK National Premier Herd Award. The Booth Family were presented with the highly acclaimed award at UK Dairy Day and now welcome visitors to the Premier Herd Open Day on Tuesday 7th June.

The Feizor herd comprises of around 120 milkers plus 190 followers, the herd is currently averaging 12,500kgs, being housed indoors all year round, with youngstock and dry cows grazing, the farm which is made up of 270 acres and is entirely grass and permanent pasture. The herd was completely restocked after FMD in 2001.

Notable families include Delia, Dandy, Flo, Joy, Melody and Neoma with more recent editions including Bellamy, Blexy and Kandie. The Feizor herd previously won this accolade in 2012 and achieved Master Breeder status in 2015. This is only the second time that a herd has won the Premier Herd Competition on multiple occasions since the contest started in 2002.

Following in Reserve was the Boclair herd from David & John Brewster from the Scotland region. Farming in Lanarkshire, milking 210 cows through robots, the Boclair herd was established in the 1950s by the late Jack Brewster. The herd is currently averaging 13,543kgs, with notable family members from Hope, Joan, Elegance and Apple. No strangers to the competition, the Boclair herd won in 2017 and were finalists last year.

Placing in Honourable Mention position was the Corringham herd from RV Winter & Sons, based in Lincolnshire who had won the Eastern region. The Corringham herd, also previous winners back in 2008, have since been finalists five times. Milking 210 cows on a mixed dairy and arable farm, the herd is averaging 10,400kgs. Their prominent cows families include the Beths and the Crimsons.

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