In Great Britain in 2022 the share of dairy farms that were using block calving has increased to 18.7 percent. In 2016 this was 6.6 percent. The number of farms with all year round calving was still around 30 percent. Autumn block calving increased from 2.6 percent in 2016 to 5.4 percent in 2022. Spring block calving was in 2022 used by 5.3 percent of the farms and dual block calving by 4.2 percent. Of the larger farms with more than 500 births per year 63.3 percent was using all year round calving. Of the farms with less than 200 births per year 62.0 percent had a non-defined calving pattern, 25 percent all year round and 12.5 percent was using block calving. (AHDB)