Livestock

Arable farmers have been urged to consider baling their thicker fields as straw prices rise on the back of lower yields this season.

It is that time of year again when there is intense tension between the agricultural community desperate to reduce bovine TB and those that seek to protect badgers.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has rejected calls from farming groups and MPs to put the Trade and Agriculture Commission on a statutory footing.

It is two years since the University of Nottingham’s 240-cow herd moved into the £6million Centre for Dairy Excellence. So what impact has the new facility has already had on cow performance?

They say variety is the spice of life, and this is certainly the case for sheep farmer and part-time music teacher, Jonny Mattacola. Hannah Park finds out more.

While trading livestock is the key function of auction marts they bring many other benefits to rural communities. Angela Calvert reports.

In the latest of our series supported by the Livestock Auctioneers Association and Shearwell Data, we visit the new Darlington Farmer Auction Mart, which began trading this week. Angela Calvert reports.

A major poultry processor has called on Ministers to support the food manufacturing industry after a Covid-19 outbreak forced its factory to temporarily close its cutting room, at a cost of £2m a week.

While recent years has seen many auction marts to move out of town centres, the opposite is true of Melton Mowbray which is bucking the trend.

A farmer has auctioned off a mule gimmer lamb to aid fundraising efforts for testicular cancer.