Livestock

With it taking anything up to 17 years of research and development to bring a new product to the seed variety market, Barenbrug UK managing director Paul Johnson talks to FG about the breeder’s priorities in the years ahead

Brexit has failed to deliver for small abattoir owners despite the fact that crushing EU rules have led to many slaughterhouse closures in recent years, an industry leader has warned.

Jim Walker has criticised comments by NFUS president Martin Kennedy on Irish beef filling the UK self-sufficiency gap

Combining genomic testing with a sexed and beef strategy is helping Aberystwyth University’s farm to efficiently breed the best replacements to suit their new robotic system.

Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared.

Moving from conventional milking to robotic milking has the potential to drive numerous efficiency gains on-farm and help future-proof dairy businesses.

Optimising the number of heifer calves produced by targeting and continuously monitoring the use of sexed semen could help business performance and carbon footprint.

MEMBERS of the British Limousin Cattle Society have been informed that first generation progeny from a batch of imported semen from Jacot 36-94-005-555 should not be used for pedigree breeding.

AHDB’s Farm Business Review is helping one Gloucestershire farmer add value to his farming operation by setting up a solid cost infrastructure for his new business venture in a bid to maximise profit. Mollie Leach reports.