Beef

Farmers have expressed their concern about an ‘outrageous’ HCC plan to link Welsh red meat levies to inflation, at a time when businesses are already grappling with soaring costs.

Farmers have expressed their concern about an outrageous HCC plan to link Welsh red meat levies to inflation, at a time when businesses are already grappling with soaring costs.

Heifers led the beef championship for the second consecutive year at Carlisles Borderway Agri-Expo event. Katie Fallon reports.

Negative experiences during a cow’s pregnancy, such as stress, changes to nutrition and cow health can have long lasting impacts on foetal development and influence lifetime cattle performance.

THE ethos for the Luing breed has always been to produce low input cattle which will perform in the harshest of conditions with minimal intervention. The founders of the breed, the Cadzow family are continuing to refine these traits with increasing use of technology and data.

Look out for acorns on grazing pastures this autumn, as the effects of acorn poisoning can be detrimental to livestock.

Good hygiene and colostrum management are the corner stones of controlling cryptosporidiosis infections in calves.

Knowing your production costs and market and understanding consumer requirements has never been more important when finishing cattle. Angela Calvert and Katie Fallon report.

New Prime Minister Liz Truss is under pressure to rethink bovine TB policies, as industry groups warn farmers must have ‘access to all available measures’ if the disease is to be eradicated.

The number of animals slaughtered due to bovine TB in England has fallen by 20 per cent, according to the latest Government figures.