Livestock

A farmer took to social media to highlight his anguish after a courier driver ran over his ewe, leaving it severely injured. 

Police are stepping up measures to prevent livestock thefts, after thousands of pounds worth of farm animals were stolen.

Timely treatment and effective prevention is the only way to reduce potentially significant losses caused by coccidiosis in calves.

The coronavirus pandemic has shone a spotlight on food security, giving us an opportunity to reshape post-Brexit policy around production, says Matt Legge, a sheep, beef and pig farmer from the Isle of Wight.

Issues such as a lack of agricultural labour have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, but Brexit is their root cause, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

MORE than 40 per cent of the English pig breeding herd is kept outdoors, but finding sufficient suitable land can be a challenge, so how can producers address this?

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has launched a six-week campaign to showcase the ‘fantastic efforts’ of its British suppliers during the Covid-19 outbreak.

President Trump is determined to ensure US meat processing plants stay open during the coronavirus pandemic, amid reports of meat shortages and staff going off sick with Covid-19.

More than half of the British public see domestic food production as more important now than they did before the coronavirus pandemic, new research has shown.