Sheep

With NSA North Sheep just around the corner, Hannah Morgan met with Willie Woodman who is set to host the event alongside his family at Bradford House Farm, Northumberland, on Wednesday, June 7.

A full, professional carbon audit of the Northumberland farm that will host NSA North Sheep 2023 shows emissions well below average and highlights the next steps that will keep the Woodman family on track to achieve their net zero target.

A farmer found four of his sheep decapitated on May 20

High-tech portable chambers for measuring methane emissions from sheep are being used in the UK for the first time.

A sheep was killed in a dog attack at a South Yorkshire beauty spot over the Coronation weekend following a warning from police after an attack on May 1. By Chris Brayford

Longwool champion, a North Country Cheviot ewe from Jack Smyth and William Rankin, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone, took home the sheep inter-breed sash.

A man has been charged after 93 pregnant sheep were chased by a dog near Auchterarder in Perthshire.

The early weeks of life are the most important for lamb growth rates where feed conversion rate is at its highest.

Easy lambing, fast finished lambs off grass and herbal leys are the priority for Marlborough, Wiltshire-based farm manager Neil Ridgway and shepherd Paul Barnes. Chrissie Long reports.

Farmland, livestock and the people that manage these environments must be protected, not threatened. That is the message from the National Sheep Association (NSA) after further debates last week whether to bring back lynx.