Livestock

An independent report commissioned by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Livestock has concluded new methods of mitigating carbon emissions from livestock production must be found to reach net zero targets by 2050.

Trade Secretary Liz Truss has warned it is ‘dangerous’ for the UK sheep sector to be so heavily reliant on the EU market for lamb exports.

With reports of rising lungworm infections in cattle in recent weeks, vet Emily Francis offers some advice on protecting your herd and profits.

The supermarket giant has been purchased by the billionaire Issa brothers, from Blackburn, in a £6.8bn deal

The extent to which drones could be helpful as a monitoring aid when checking sheep is being investigated as part of a trial in Australia. 

Suffolk farmers Richard and Natasha Mann are planning to hand over their busy arable farm and potato business and take a well-earned retirement. But, as they told Clemmie Gleeson, they have no plans to give up their Yarn Hill

Using data to monitor temperature and humidity in calf housing can help prevent disease. 

Farming economics, it is sometimes argued, work in a countercyclical fashion to the wider economy. And if there was one year to seemingly prove that it would be 2020.

MPs who voted down an Agriculture Bill amendment to ban low-standard imports in May could have been waiting for a Government concession. But if they choose to reject another similar Lords amendment in two weeks, they will not be forgiven, says Tom Lancaster, head of land use policy at the RSPB.

The WTO permits measures to protect the environment in certain circumstances, so Ministers should insist our future trading partners meet domestic food production standards, says Conservative peer Anne McIntosh.