Farm Business

A digital round-up of last week’s sheepdog trials and results in England, Scotland and Wales.

A dog owner whose pet continually attacked livestock despite being warned by police has been banned from entering any private land or farmer’s field without permission.

Returns for this year’s wool clip will be ’significantly’ better than the previous two years , Andrew Hogley, chief executive of British Wool, has said.

A push to plant trees across Scotland has driven marginal grazing land prices up, with a knock-on effect on better land.

Wool’s important role as a sustainable clothing textile has been highlighted by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who has slammed the fast fashion industry for its contributions to the climate and ecological emergency.

A multitude of factors has seen haulage prices spike in recent weeks, with all sectors taking a financial hit.

A dairy farmer has said it ‘beggars belief’ that the media have launched a campaign to save a single bTB-positive alpaca while ignoring the 160,000 cattle which have been destroyed during the 4-year fight to keep him alive.

A family has paid tribute to their three-year-old ’blue-eyed boy’ who died in a farm incident near Carmarthenshire. 

Plots from one of the oldest continuous field trial sites in the UK and the oldest in Scotland have been relocated to make room for house building.

A man from Hereford who stole £87,640 worth of sheep has been sentenced to eight months in prison.