Livestock

Industry leaders have warned farmers will face ‘major financial hardship’ during the transition away from direct payments, with Defra planning to maintain the income foregone payment model for the foreseeable future.

A GCSE in natural history has been branded a ‘great opportunity’ to reconnect farming and children by the NFU.  

Nineteen Nuffield Farming Scholars took to the virtual stage to share the findings of their weeks of global travel and research. Hannah Binns finds out more.  

Ancillary rural businesses and communities which hinge on farming in Wales’ uplands face significant threats from a bad trade deal or if farm profitability takes a hit.

THE Three Nations sale of Suffolk females at Carlisle topped at 15,000gns for a shearling gimmer by Malinhead Maverick out of a Mountford Mustang sired ewe from Dennis Taylor’s Ballycannon flock, Colraine, Northern Ireland.

Dog owners have been reminded to keep their pets on a lead around livestock after a farmer was forced to shoot a cockapoo which was chasing his sheep.

Ministers from the devolved nations have called for assurances that all EU funding for the countryside will be fully replaced, after it emerged Treasury proposals would see rural budgets slashed by more than £455m.

SARKLEY Paragon, a May 2019-born Limousin bull by Ampertaine Elgin out of Sarkley Irondelle, led the trade at 10,000gns at the North West Midlands and North Wales Club sale at Welshpool.

New targets for the responsible use of antibiotics in UK farm animals build on the success of previous measures. 

THE top price of day of 6,000gns at the British Charolais Cattle Society sale at Welshpool went to David Thornley, Hartshorne, Derbyshire, with Dooley Pringo.