Livestock

THE Three Nations sale of Suffolk females at Carlisle topped at 15,000gns for a shearling gimmer by Malinhead Maverick out of a Mountford Mustang sired ewe from Dennis Taylor’s Ballycannon flock, Colraine, Northern Ireland.

Dog owners have been reminded to keep their pets on a lead around livestock after a farmer was forced to shoot a cockapoo which was chasing his sheep.

Ministers from the devolved nations have called for assurances that all EU funding for the countryside will be fully replaced, after it emerged Treasury proposals would see rural budgets slashed by more than £455m.

SARKLEY Paragon, a May 2019-born Limousin bull by Ampertaine Elgin out of Sarkley Irondelle, led the trade at 10,000gns at the North West Midlands and North Wales Club sale at Welshpool.

New targets for the responsible use of antibiotics in UK farm animals build on the success of previous measures. 

THE top price of day of 6,000gns at the British Charolais Cattle Society sale at Welshpool went to David Thornley, Hartshorne, Derbyshire, with Dooley Pringo.

The UK’s internal market will not be distorted if Scottish farmers keep their direct payments after Brexit, Defra Secretary George Eustice has said.

The second in a series of articles on fodder beet looks at how the crop can be an efficient way of wintering large numbers of sheep in a small area, helping save pasture elsewhere. Hannah Park reports.

Finboot, a company producing blockchain applications for supply chains, takes a look at how the technology can help the farming industry feed a growing global population

An innovative approach, together with investment, has been central to success for first-generation dairy farmers Liam and Annie James. Barry Alston reports.