Livestock

Cranswick plans for West Norfolk base to house 870,000 chickens and 14,000 pigs will cause nothing but 'distress and disturbance', say residents group

The inaugural consignment of UK ovine embryos arrived in the US on August 16, 2023

Farming Community Network said it hoped the delivery of wellbeing training to bodies such as the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Natural England would lead to more empathetic conversations with farmers

At the moment in-calf cows and heifers which fail bovine TB tests must be culled on-farm before giving birth

Identifying residual disease risk in Pembrokeshire will be at the project’s core, alongside developing a pathway to reduce cattle-to-cattle transmission

Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society president, Tim Riley runs the Stoneyroyd herd in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire

Dyfed-Powys Police said one of the incidents included six pedigree ewes and rams being killed

The National Sheep Association has called for more support from the public and the Government

Moredun Research Institute are leading a project to develop a parasitic worm vaccine.

Defra-funded research project looks to help farmers to understand soil health by listening to the noises made by earthworms