Livestock

Milk cooling, water heating and vacuum pumps account for the biggest proportion of energy use on a dairy farm and therefore offer the greatest scope for savings, says energy specialist Chris Brooks.

Herd health and fertility performance is continuing to approve according to NMR’s latest key performance indicator (KPI) report.

The latest inflation figures may have been unexpected for economists and politicians but they came as ’no surprise’ to food producers.

A single case of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Cornwall this week.

The packaging of Lidl’s Birchwood lamb has been criticised due to the placement of the union flag

Few farmers can keep beef cows as economically as Duncan and Claire Morrison at Meikle Maldron, an upland farm near Torphins in Aberdeenshire. Ewan Pate reports.

AHDB’s export team was in Dallas, Texas, last week for the Annual Meat Conference (AMC) as the levy board sought to promote British beef and lamb in the States. Ben Briggs joined the delegation and reports from the

Increasing cases of bovine TB on Anglesey are ringing alarm bells in Wales, with cattle keepers receiving additional advice as the Welsh Government tries to keep cases low.

Farmers Guardian’s news team talk about the latest in the food fraud scandal of South American beef being branded as British at a UK supermarket and Olivia Midgley speaks to RSPB chief executive Becky Speight