About the film

Every day, thousands of dairy calves are separated from their mothers at birth. A Dairy Story follows a husband-and-wife team as they risk everything to prove there’s another way.

At Rainton Farm in south-west Scotland, David and Wilma Finlay abandon conventional methods and build the first farm in Europe to make a cow-with-calf dairy system commercially viable.

This is a story about the bonds that matter most. What begins as a question of animal welfare opens into climate, environment, and ultimately something far more personal: a story about change, about trusting nature, and about the time we have together.

A Dairy Story shows how changing a farming system changes everything; from the lives of the animals to the wellbeing of the farmers, and perhaps even the future of dairy farming itself.