Livestock

Making the most of opportunities and being open to change has allowed the Wilson family to expand and develop their farming enterprise

The Department for Agriculture, environment and rural affairs have issued a proposal to reduce the compensation rate for cattle removed under the bovine Tuberculosis programme

Professor Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was 'disingenuous, lazy and damaging'

Ensuring ewes are getting their nutritional requirements during mid and late pregnancy is essential for them to produce good quality colostrum and healthy lambs

A switch to cattle outwintering using deferred hill grazing has paved the way for herd expansion on the Black family's upland beef and sheep unit south-west of Edinburgh

Farmers and vets are seeing high levels of Schmallenberg in early lambing flocks particularly in the south and west

Normally the family aim to milk a herd of around 120 cows, but at the moment they are only milking 70 cows

Edale Mountain Rescue Team said the dog walker was airlifted to Sheffield Northern General Hospital’s trauma unit for further treatment

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