Livestock

Recruitment for Alan Clarke’s replacement will start in December

The Welsh Government has been accused of seeking to slash compensation payouts to farmers whose cattle go down with bovine TB.

Consumption of Welsh lamb could grow if the sector ‘takes away the risk’, with the meat highly-prized among England’s shoppers compared to its British and New Zealand counterparts.

The carbon intensity index for dairy in Northern Ireland has been slashed over the past two decades. Richard Halleron reports.

Pilgrim’s UK has announced the acquisition of Randall Parker Foods (RPF), which it said would back British lamb production. 

Thousands of pigs have been unnecessarily culled because exporting to the EU has become too expensive and difficult since the end of the Brexit transition period, industry leaders have warned.

Thousands of pigs have been ‘unnecessarily culled’ because exporting to the EU has become too expensive and difficult since the end of the Brexit transition period, industry leaders have warned.

AHDB’s Farm Business Review is helping one Nottinghamshire beef farmer improve farm efficiencies in a bid to drive farm business performance, as he gears up for the transition to environmental payments. Mollie Leach reports.

Exhibitors were back at Stirling Agricultural Centre over the weekend as the eleventh Stars of the Future calf show got underway.

Cuts to police budgets could leave forces unable to enforce the Government’s crackdown on livestock worrying, according to Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner.