Livestock

The farmer at the centre of a bird flu outbreak in Angus, Scotland, has spoken out over the ordeal.

Farm groups have urged Ministers not to put UK producers at a competitive disadvantage, after trade partner Australia refused to sign up to a global pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent over the next nine years.

The introduction of the AIPZ comes after the disease was detected in captive birds at premises in England, Wales and Scotland

Pig industry figures welcomed news from a BBC reporter that labels on food served at the event in Glasgow showed a bacon roll had a lower carbon count than a plant-based croissant

UK slurry inoculant manufacturer, Envirosystems, has won a share of Defra’s £5 million Farming Innovation Pathways (FIP) research funding to help the industry move towards net zero emissions.

John Gent was announced as the winner of the inauguralDavid Thomlinson Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Borderway Agri Expo event.

Heifers led the supreme judging as the Borderway Agri-Expo event returned to Carlisle for the first time since 2019.

Genetic contact tracing to identify the source of a bTB outbreak could be another tool in the armoury for managing the disease, scientists have claimed.

With the red meat industry under the microscope on sustainability, Alex Black spoke to Dawn Meats’ Sarah Haire about their environmental commitments and why it was so important

THREE days of Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association C District ram sales at Kirkby Stephen peaked at 60,000.