Livestock

Lamb prices may have ’slipped away’ across UK marts in recent weeks, but industry has voiced cautious optimism that trade will stay buoyant in the coming months.

THE early NSA Wales and Border ram sale held at Builth Wells saw 211 rams sold with a clearance rate of 73.5 per cent.

Historically, most farmers use more rams than they need, according to veterinary surgeon Will Barker, of Castle Farm Vets, Barnard Castle.

SCOPS, with the backing and support of the Moredun Research Institute, the National Sheep Association and the Sheep Veterinary Society, has issued a letter to the sheep sector with renewed advice to farmers to include the newer group 4 and 5 wormers in their worm control plans now.

Farmers have reacted angrily to a threat from Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths to ‘close’ chicken sheds in order to tackle water pollution.

The former national chairman of the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs is set to welcome the BBC on-farm in a bid to showcase the valuable work farmers do to keep the nation fed 24/7 during this year’s #Farm24 event.

Farmers are being urged to plan how they will manage and build stocks of winter forage and bedding following this year’s cold and wet spring.

August 2021 Dairy Farming edition

As part of a wider plan for a large estate to survive without support payments, arable land has been converted to a grazing platform for 300 cows and is set to produce a 7 per cent base return on investment for the landowner.

Speakers from countries across the world, all at different stages in their journeys towards bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) eradication, came together at the BVDzero congress to share their experiences.