Livestock

Red meat, potato and dairy sales have received a boost from the reopening of takeaways as Brits return to their pre-shutdown eating habits

Increasing both quality and quantity of their livestock is the driving force behind Tom Hill and Ruby Wright’s South Yorkshire farming business.

I am pleased to be hiding from the heat and catching up on office work. A week of 30degC heat (and more) and not a drop of rain has parched already severely dry ground and there is not a bite of grass over most of the farm.

The Farmers Guardian supported Beltex Sheep Society’s premier sale at Carlisle saw a new auction record of 45,000gns set for a ram lamb and averages up on the year across all sections.

The Lynx UK Trust has singled out a forest near Loch Lomond, Scotland as a ‘lynx paradise’.

Vegans who buy milk substitutes are harming the planet and would be better switching to cow’s milk, according to a new study.

Amy Wilkinson, 24, farms with her dad in Halsall, Lancashire. She rears 550 beef cattle through to finishing and farms 243 hectares (600 acres) of arable land.

A leaked Government document shows a badger cull could go ahead in Derbyshire this autumn.

The US beef industry has been at the centre of discussion on a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal. In the first of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, Farmers Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the structure of the industry from the ranch to the packing plant.

Accurate interpretation and a proactive approach to pregnancy diagnosis (PD) results can pay off for suckler producers. Vet Kaz Strycharczyk, of Black Sheep Farm Health, Northumberland, offered a few tips.