Figures from CAFRE benchmarking consistently show that profitability on NI dairy farms is directly linked to the amount of milk produced from forage.Speaking at the second of AFBI’s three on-farm dairy events, on a farm near Kinawley, Co Fermanagh, Dr Debbie McConnell from AFBI highlighted that average figures from benchmarking farms from 2000 to 2016 show that the top 25% of farms had a net margin of £556/cow. That compares with the bottom 25% of farms with a net margin of £292/cow.