Livestock

A portable ‘black box’, which can be used by farmers, vets and semen-processing laboratories to determine the quality of semen within minutes has been developed.

More than 10,000 levy paying AHDB members have seized the chance to vote on how their money is spent by signing up to the board’s Shape the Future campaign.

Convenience markets could pose a potential opportunity for the red meat sector as shoppers turn back to quick and easy meals.

At turnout, young heifers allowed to graze infected pastures will develop large worm burdens over time and pasture contamination will accelerate as the season progresses.

Rosie Bennett, 27, is from Honiton, Devon. She is a dairy and poultry farmer’s daughter and works as a manager at an agricultural specialist accountants Evolution ABS Limited.

Buyers and sellers have rediscovered the value of the live sales ring throughout the challenges of the pandemic, as integrated systems come under more scrutiny

There is a real danger Red Tractor (RT) could become Defra’s policing body, making the assurance scheme ‘more compulsory than voluntary’, farmers fear. 

Fake meat will not save the planet and risks entrenching domination of food systems by giant ag-corporations, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES) has warned. 

SALERS were the breed of choice when Geoff and Olwen Lawrenson set up their suckler herd almost two decades ago and it has proved to be a wise decision.

Processors have announced price rises for May but Kite Consulting have warned another 5-10ppl could be needed if they want to incentivise production