Sheep

As shearing season gets underway, Cedric Porter takes a look at the market for UK wool in 2022

Sheep meat production increased by 22 per cent in April, totalling 24,300 tonnes, new Defra figures reveal.

Shelf life for Welsh lamb has significantly improved, increasing export opportunities to new and developing global markets, Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC) industry development and relations manager John Richards has said. 

Exhibitors and visitors alike were pleased to be attending the first Nottinghamshire Show since 2019. Angela Calvert and Katie Fallon report.

Ringside round-up of all the action from the livestock exhibits at this year’s Balmoral Show.

With fly season upon us, farmers are being reminded to tackle strike head-on and apply an early preventive treatment to protect sheep from blowfly strike and to stop the first wave of blowflies from breeding.

Sustainability may be a ‘buzz word’ in many conversations concerning agriculture at the moment, but what does it mean to farmers at the coal face?

THE wool from Blackface sheep could make a comeback as clothing material if a new initiative gains traction.

With major changes ahead in the red meat industry in Scotland, Ewan Pate spoke to Sarah Millar as she begins her new role as chief executive at Quality Meat Scotland

For mixed farmer Tom James, sustainability falls between social, economic and environmental pillars with the environmental aspect, he says, gaining the most momentum in the industry since the late 1990s because of its emotive credentials.