Livestock

The Scottish Agriculture Bill needs a sunset clause to stop Ministers being able to change policy without scrutiny over the coming decades, says Mike Rumbles, MSP for the North East of Scotland.

Sheep farmers Peter Williams and Bedwyr Jones are the first to bring the ‘fat tailed’ Damara breed into the UK.

In order to collaboratively investigate ways to deliver nature-friendly farming, 120 farms across the South Downs have formed into six ‘farm clusters’.

With summer temperatures rising, farmers are being warned not to dismiss heat stress in pigs as a foreign problem. Hannah Noble reports.

The NFU has urged farmers to submit their 2020 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) applications ahead of the June 15 deadline to ease pressure on the Rural Payments Agency.

Scotland’s pork industry appears to have weathered the Covid-19 storm better than its counterparts in the United States and Ireland.

With the industry still geared towards a net zero emissions target, carbon accounting could be increasingly demanded to explain and improve farm business carbon output. Hannah Park reports.

A North-West police force has fined a young farmer caught talking on his mobile phone while driving a tractor and rake. 

BLUE Texels led the trade at 5,400 at Harrison and Hetherington’s first online timed pedigree sheep sale which had a 93 per cent clearance across all breeds.

Efforts to promote steaks from all parts of the supply chain have begun to bear fruit, with sales up 20 per cent year on year.