Livestock

A series of adverts thanking British farmers for their ‘tremendous perseverance’ through the Covid-19 pandemic have been produced by online grocer Farmdrop.

UK agriculture is providing part of the solution to climate change, but farmers also need to get to grips with their own carbon footprint figures, an audience in a recent AHDB-organised webinar heard.

Farmers in Montgomeryshire, Wales have raised thousands of pounds for families in difficult circumstances by donating sheep and lamb sale proceedings. 

With an eye on expanding cow numbers in the next couple of years, the Darke family decided to replace robots with a rotary parlour. Rebecca Jordan visits them to find out how the new system is working.

A new record of 46,000gns for an in-lamb Texel was set at the Select Seven sale at Lanark.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has said the current ‘buoyancy’ of the UK sheep market may mean the sector will not need to be compensated in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Digestibility of early season maize silage can be low, resulting in nutrient wastage and even a reduction in milk production, but there are ways to mitigate this. Hannah Noble reports.

Over the last three years the Loewith family, of Summitholm Holsteins, has made three significant changes to its cow management strategy and reaped the benefits. Hannah Noble reports.

In the 80s, Thatcherism tore the heart out of British manufacturing, with long-term social consequences. We cannot let the same thing happen now to English farming, says Labour Shadow Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner.

With BPS on the way out, and Defra not yet ready to offer support which fills the gap, farmers must take steps now to survive the Brexit transition, says Dr Julia Aglionby, executive director at the FCL and chairwoman of the Uplands Alliance.