A farmer explains about a cattle cubicle taking on a new dimension

This is one of the earliest Farming News Reports of its day when a local Devonshire farmer took on the role of farming correspondent. Don Rickard interviews a fellow dairy farmer Michael Urlogh about his experiment with cattle cubicles on his farm. The dairy cow is in a separate partition through the winter and is generally kept in better health out of the muddy wet without having to be cleaned down daily before milking.

Since the 1960s cubicles have become the most common form of housing dairy cattle, designed to reduce diseases such as mastitis and lameness whilst allowing the animal to lie down with sufficient lunging space. Cubicle design has evolved over the years to adapt to the growing size and shape of the animal. The animal's welfare is therefore taken into account. Specialist farming programmes started after the Second World War and proved very popular if programmed at the right time.