Livestock

This month’s #FarmingCAN special feature explores how creating a positive rhetoric with the public is becoming increasingly important for agriculture.

At a recent webinar hosted by the National Sheep Association, speakers from the Smart Sheep project discussed the potential of EID technology aiding the reduction of wormer resistance on farm. Katie Fallon reports.

Bizza Walters, 24, is from a mixed family farm in Studley, Warwickshire. After studying at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, she works around the UK and abroad as a shepherdess, and is also an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

Good silage will be key to making the most of good milk prices in the face of high fertiliser and feed costs.

The Black Sea’s established ‘stranglehold’ on the UK’s organics market has sparked industry concern about the sector’s future.

Exports of red meat from the UK were worth more than £1.45 billion in 2021, up £33 million on pre-pandemic levels. Hannah Binns reports on AHDB’s Red Meat Export Conference. 

Gisburn Auction Marts has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of £8,819 after an employee was fatally injured while helping to load a dairy bull into a lorry.

One of the largest egg-producing companies in Scotland has been hit by an outbreak of avian influenza.

One Northumberland dairy farmer has identified ways to potentially reduce the carbon footprint of purchased feed by a predicted 28% and, in doing so, help lower his overall environmental impact.

The farming community has reacted angrily to a recent study that claims badger culling had little impact of incidences of bovine TB.