Livestock

Sheep farmers are being urged to integrate the two newer wormer groups, 4-AD orange and 5-SI purple, into their worm control plans now.

NEW at this year’s Borderway Agri-Expo to be held on October 29 at Carlisle is the David Thomlinson Lifetime Achievement Award which aims to recognise commitment, success and accomplishment within livestock farming industry.

As applications open for a 259-hectare (640-acre) farm in west Somerset, Dairy Farmer looks at how this business model could work for both new entrants and landowners.

Unlike previous pandemics or plagues, Covid-19 has happened at a time when the ability to monitor the spread of the disease has been far more advanced than any previous era.

Pasture management is an important, although often under-utilised, element of sustainable parasite control.

The fire was believed to have be started by an ’accidental ignition’

Field trials for a bovine tuberculosis (bTB) BCG cattle vaccine and a skin test have begun at a farm in England, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has announced. 

Andrew Barraclough has been producing rose veal from his dairy bull calves for almost two decades, with the meat marketed to prestigious London catering establishments. Wendy Short reports.

Spirits were high in the West Country last week when Devon Show became the first fully-fledged county event with general public attendance to be staged since 2019. 

TRADE topped at 21,000gns at the final sale to disperse the Sterndale and Peak herds of pedigree Holsteins on behalf of Bill Nadin and Yasmin Bradbury, on-farm at Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire.