Beef

NBA and SBA chief executive Neil Shand said Scottish farmers must grow the Scottish beef herd to 79,000 by 2030 to meet market demand alone

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Philip Morgan, Powys, reflects on the transformation of UK beef breeding over the past 50 years

For Prosser and Steph James, making better use of the resources they had on their Welsh farm without taking on big financial risk was key

Teagasc’s Future Beef Programme continued its spring webinar series with a focus on what matters most in every suckler herd, delivering a live calf and keeping it alive.

Tom Ashton was a founder member of both the British Blue Cattle Society and the Beltex Sheep Society

The industry has flagged concerns over a consultation on the issue in the Government’s A New Vision for Water report

Bulls from the Evans family’s Llwynhywel herd will be making the long trip to Stirling Bull Sales

Top-performing suckler herds focus on fertility, calf growth, tight calving patterns and targeted cow-calf inputs to produce heavier, healthier weaned calves.

Reporting unusual symptoms this calving season could play a vital role in catching bluetongue before it is too late.

Hamish Goldie has known Charolais all his life. His father Jim was one of the first to import them into the UK in 1969 and he now runs his own successful Goldies herd at South Bowerhouses, Dumfries