Livestock

Exhibitors were back at Lanark Auction Mart over the weekend for the popular LiveScot event, held at Lanark Agricultural Centre.

Bringing cattle in for housing can often coincide with vaccinations being administered, but it is important to ensure these vaccinations are correctly timed. Angela Calvert reports.

Designer and manufacturer of milking equipment, DeLaval, has launched a new concept around automatic milking. Hannah Park reports.

Skyrocketing shipping price hikes have hit the ‘big five’ global meat exporters as Covid-19 continues to play havoc in global markets. By Bruce Jobson

Careful budgeting and persistence are the key requirements to the success of once-a-day milking systems. Wendy Short reports.

Farm groups have raised conflict of interest concerns after an Environment Agency (EA) employee working on Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) policy was found to have spoken at an Animal Rebellion march.

With an increased starling population as the winter months set in at risk of eating into total mixed rations and other hard feed stocks on dairy farms, we round up some of the advice on how to effectively control starling numbers. Hannah Park reports.

On her first time exhibiting at the English Winter Fair, held once again at Bingley Hall, Staffordshire, Rebecca Armstrong, Ledbury, took the top honours in the sheep ring with her pair of Beltex wether lambs.

Cranswick said the labour and supply challenges were being well-managed in its business as the crisis continues for pig farmers

New maternal evaluations will be launched in 2022 which aim to shift the focus to efficiency rather than purely output, explained Sam Boon, Signet Breeding Services manager at the online Sheep Breeders Round Table conference.