Farm Life

The cost of dog attacks on livestock has risen by approximately 51.3 per cent during the first quarter of 2021, claims data from NFU Mutual has revealed.

A Welsh Borders farmer who created a herd of British Blue cattle in his wife’s memory has raised more than £80,000 for charity.

Tributes have been paid to industry stalwart Malcolm Stansfield, who has died aged 86.

John McCulloch, 21, is a stockman at G Barbour & Co, based in Crocketford, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. He is the chairman of Stewartry Young Farmers and chairman of the SAYFC West region agri and rural affairs committee.

An Environment Agency survey has found farmers are most affected by large-scale fly-tipping, with 15 per cent of landowners forced to make an insurance claim to clear dumped waste.

The limit on the number of people at weddings has been scrapped from June 21 but other restrictions remain in place

Some of you may know I chair Cattle Health Certification Standards (CHECS), which has set standards for cattle disease control in the UK and Ireland for more than 20 years.

It is the season for maggots, each female green bottle fly can lay 250 eggs in the fleece and they can hatch out after only 12 hours.