Livestock

When you purchase a worming treatment from your local farm store or over the counter at your vets, you will have met a suitably qualified person (SQP).

Tesco’s adverts for its Plant Chef range have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for ‘potentially misleading consumers’.

When you purchase a worming treatment from your local farm store or over the counter at your vets, you will have met a suitably qualified person (SQP).

The results across the livestock section from the Bath and West Show 2022

The standard pig price (SPP) has continued to rise with prices up 0.78p/kg in the week ending May 28 to a record 176.73p/kg, but it remains a long way short of soaring costs of production

The culmination of two days of judging at this year’s Staffordshire County Show saw 18 breeds take to the ring in the sheep judging with the inter-breed title going to a Charollais yearling ewe from Grant Pink, Shropshire.

Meat and poultry production will stall unless something is done to address the growing skills shortage, compromising the UK’s food security, Tony Goodger, AIMS spokesperson, has warned.

A myth has developed in recent years that British people do not want to work in the meat processing sector, but is it true? Abi Kay reports.

Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths has said she is open to looking at technological advances which could eliminate the need for closed slurry spreading periods.

Taxpayers’ money will be wasted and environmental targets missed if the Government does not put farmers and food production at the heart of its post-Brexit policy, an industry expert has warned.