Livestock

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

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.

As various educational premises across the country decided to ban animal produce, some students fought against it. Mollie Leach speaks to those at the forefront of the fight.

As dairy farmers face mounting pressure to reduce antibiotic usage and selective dry cow therapy becomes the norm, the implementation of a drying off protocol is more important than ever. Hannah Noble finds out more.