Livestock

Increasing the amount of meat substitutes eaten in processed products is likely to have ‘perverse’ environmental consequences, according to a top professor.

AT the Farmers Guardian supported show and sale of Welsh Black cattle at Dolgellau the top price was 10,000gns.

Like many young farmers, Sean Cursiter is determined to forge his own path in the family farming business.

Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan has accused a Government minister of ‘insulting’ British farmers, after he championed the benefits of buying New Zealand lamb.

After selling the dairy herd in 2009, brothers John and Keith Morrison moved into beef farming, and have established a 75-cow suckler herd to produce store cattle. Katrina Macarthur reports.

The Animal and Plant Health Agency map showing Avian Influenza (AI) outbreaks in Scotland is beginning to fill up due to a number of outbreaks in the centre of the country.  

Cattle farmers are being encouraged to think differently about lungworm in 2023 and to develop strategies to prevent production losses rather than treat infections.

Calls for the Government to work more closely with the poultry sector are growing following further outbreaks of avian influenza across both England and Scotland.

More than 25 pregnant sheep have been killed in Kent in what local officers are calling ‘the worst livestock attack’ the force has ever seen.