Livestock

Aims of health risk management on suckler farms can be to optimise the fertility, animal survival and growth rates over each single production season

The standard litre price will increase from 35ppl to 37ppl

Ensuring medicines are administered at the right time and at the right dosage could help reduce medicine costs on-farm

With sheep worrying a common issue for many farms across the UK, it is important to know legally where farmers stand, and the measures which can be taken to protect their flocks

To prevent lead and copper poisoning this grazing season, farmers are being urged to follow five steps

Electronic identification is set to become mandatory for cattle, with introduction timescales expected to vary across the UK

With rising fertiliser costs looking set to remain, a dairy farmer from West Wales has successfully halved his nitrogen use

When rodent numbers swelled rapidly at a mixed family farm in Cambridgeshire, new tactics including an integrated pest management approach and new rodenticides were needed to protect its grain stores

A new share farming agreement on a Carmarthenshire heritage pig farm has provided an exciting business opportunity for a first-generation farmer and a succession strategy for the current owners

The Rare Breed Survival Trust’s chief executive Christopher Price looks at some of the UK's native poultry breeds which are suitable for smallholders