Livestock

Five-year-old Zoe Elkington lambed her first sheep at the family farm

NSA calls out former Defra representative for incorrect and damaging statement on UK sheep farming.

As the most common ‘iceberg’ disease in the UK sheep industry, increased awareness of ovine Johne’s disease at a farm level is key to managing the disease. Katie Fallon reports.

Six thousand miles away and 3,000m above sea level it might be, but talk around the farmhouse table at Hacienda La Alegria, Ecuador, features familiar themes. Liz Falkingham reports.

Cattle keepers on Anglesey are to receive additional advice from Welsh Government over the next few days, which it says is to help keep TB incidence on the island low.

The recent cold snap in many parts of the UK could mean a spike in nematodirus risk is to come for some sheep flocks if temperatures quickly rise soon after.

Lambing season is in full swing on farms across the country

Numbers were up at Borderway Dairy Expo, Carlisle, with more than 400 cattle entered including those from 23 new exhibitors.

Dairy farmers in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand’s North Island are counting the cost of major destruction caused by Cyclone Gabrielle. Chris McCullough reports.