Livestock

A new market record was set at the Christmas primestock show and sale at Darlington.

Farmers have hit out at the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) Sixth Carbon Budget report which lumps eating red meat and dairy in with air travel and gas boilers as the highest global emitters of C02.

In an increasingly competitive environment for research funding, directors at the Moredun Research Institute raised concerns around future access to Scottish Government funding in a recent press briefing.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has been accused of ‘missing the point’ on slaughterhouse investment, after he suggested no local abattoir network policy was needed to accommodate Government plans for shorter livestock journey

It has been the question on many people’s lips in recent months but this week Royal Highland Show organisers announced the event will go ahead in 2021.

THE Dark Diamonds sale of pedigree Suffolk females at Carlisle topped at 17,000gns for a ewe lamb from Alastair Gault’s Forkins flock, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim.

The Boden family, Stockport, took the top call of 20,000gns at the Christmas Stars sale of Texel females at Carlisle.

As I come to the end of a month in Iceland, I feel satisfied knowing that my time here has been valuable for me personally and for the farming community.

The Saturday Kitchen host has encouraged people to consider Welsh lamb for their Christmas dinner

A study from Bangor University has shown Wales is one of the most sustainable places on Earth to produce red meat