Livestock

Publication of Defra’s analysis on the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) review has highlighted market development and on farm productivity as key priorities for the levy board going forward.

Thomas Carrick is part of a family-run upland beef and sheep farm in the North Pennines, near Alston. With pure-bred Swaledales to produce Mule lambs, they also run Salers cross cattle with Aberdeen-Angus calves which they finish at home.

Suffolk-based Dingley Dell pork brand was founded out of frustration with the industry’s lack of control and customer loyalty. Clemmie Gleeson meets the company’s Mark Hayward.

A new system of virtual farm inspections developed by Red Tractor to uphold standards during the coronavirus lockdown could change the way auditing takes place after the pandemic is over.

Members of the public have raised hundreds of pounds for an Angus farm, after arsonists set fire to straw bales.

The coronavirus outbreak will make it hard to analyse the true economic impact of Brexit on farming, says Eamon Cassells, a beef farmer from County Meath in Ireland.

None of us could anticipate just how altered the world has become in a matter of weeks. We are all affected by Covid-19, in so many ways, and it has never felt more important to reach out and communicate, both in our rural communities and more widely.

The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) has urged shoppers to keep buying local, sustainable food after the coronavirus pandemic is over.

Farmers should not be concerned about stocks of farm medicines or vaccines during the current pandemic, but do need to plan ahead.

The British Sheep Dairying Association (BSDA) has voiced its concerns about the future viability of member businesses with processors cancelling sheep milk orders as a result of the spreading virus.