Livestock

Despite guidelines highlighting the importance of colostrum management, too many calves are still failing to receive good quality, clean colostrum.

For the first time farmers are buying more sexed dairy semen than conventional semen, according to a recent AHDB survey of breeding companies.

While Covid-19 has decimated this year’s summer shows calendar, it also looks set to have an impact on next year’s events with two show society’s announcing this week that their 2021 fixtures will not take place.

The National Beef Association (NBA) has issued a fresh plea for transparency in the foodservice sector after wholesaler Booker was caught re-labelling Uruguayan beef.

With the warm and wet weather conditions of late proving favourable for bacteria survival, vet Zoe Waterson reminds farmers to be vigilant against environmental mastitis.

Two Derbyshire MPs have accidentally shared confidential information about the proposed badger cull in response to constituents’ questions.

It follows the granting of market access in March this year

The first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Germany was found in a wild boar carcase near the Polish border last week

Essential oils have been used for their medicinal and flavouring properties for hundreds of years, but a new market is emerging within the livestock sector in pursuit of a replacement for prophylactic antibiotic therapy.