Livestock

The transition period is a crucial time for any dairy herd but for autumn-calving herds there is only a small window to get it right, so how can producers ensure success?

The worst thing about brewers grains is when you stop feeding them, according to a Cheshire producer who has used co-products in his milking herd, dry cow and heifer rations for as long as he can remember.

THE sun shone over another busy Shropshire County Show and the Limousin champion took the beef inter-breed honours. Hannah Noble reports.

A carefully considered reseeding strategy is helping to lift yields of grass on a drought-prone upland farm in Wales.

The Suffolk breed record in Northern Ireland was smashed three times and equalled twice at the Suffolk Sheep Society Northern Ireland Branch premier export show and sale at Ballymena, where 157 averaged 1,976.

Farms are being urged not to overlook the effect of rising temperatures on livestock and to take precautionary measures against heat stress after the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning.

The publication of Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy has been broadly welcomed by industry bodies but there are areas of concern for meat, dairy and sugar producers

Meat processors were down 5-10 per cent on staff as a result of people being told to self-isolate by the NHS Covid App

RG and RB Williams have purchased the remaining shares from Coles Knapp and Kennedy

A UK-wide exercise which simulates an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) is set to begin this week to test the Government’s contingency plans to contain and eliminate the disease.