Livestock

November 2020 Dairy Farming edition

Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths, came under fire for failing to produce promised funding to help the Welsh sheep sector tackle sheep scab.

Pasture monitoring and feed budgeting is central to the system for brothers Aled and Iwan Evans, as they aim to achieve optimum output per hectare while consistently reaching their desired profit margin. Hannah Park reports.

In the latest of feature of our series supported by the Livestock Auctioneers Association and Shearwell Data, we look at the importance of the Scottish island’s auction marts.

Wales’ farmers can capitalise on growing demand for the Welsh food brand, but investment is needed to shorten supply chains and make the sector truly sustainable, NFU Cymru’s annual conference heard. 

Dairy farmers, calf rearers, growers and beef finishers are all benefiting from a scheme to increase the amount of Wagyu beef on offer to British consumers.

Ministers have finally given Parliament more power to scrutinise trade deals, but the Parliament which will be scrutinising is the same Tory-majority one which has voted time and again not to protect our standards. I am not popping the champagne cork just yet, says Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron.

If Scottish farmers are to address the climate emergency, they need guarantees that they will not be undercut by cheap, environmentally damaging imports from abroad, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

The UK is not as ready as it should be for the end of the Brexit transition, and it’s hard to see how the current lean, just-in-time meat and dairy supply chains will survive, says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation.

It is now a legal requirement for all bird keepers to follow strict biosecurity measures