A new five-year UK Dairy Cattle Welfare Strategy has been launched by Ruminant Health and Welfare

Livestock numbers were up at this year's Staffordshire County Show

A large amount of heifers are not lasting into their second lactation, but what can farmers do at the rearing stage to prevent this from happening?

With finished lamb prices currently trending up on this time last year, UK sheep producers are being encouraged to protect valuable young lambs from preventable disease threats this summer

High-tech portable chambers for measuring methane emissions from sheep are being used in the UK for the first time.

Farmers who make hay for horses are being warned of the dangers of cutting grass from pastures contaminated with sycamore seedlings and saplings.

Without wanting to scare monger, independent consultant Chris Duller said regulations surrounding phosphates on farms are coming.

With research estimates suggesting the cost of rearing heifers sits somewhere around the 1,900 mark, it is important to make sure these heifers are lasting in order to pay back that investment.

From 2025 UK cattle farmers could be required by the Government to feed their stock methane suppressants in a bid to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hit net zero by 2050.