Sheep

Parasitic gastroenteritis is the main production limiting disease of sheep in the UK, with an annual cost to the UK industry of about £84 million.

Well, this is a funny one. We live in very strange times and now we are nearing the end of lambing time there is time to reflect.

As GrassCheckGB enters into its second year, Hannah Park caught up with two of the farms taking part in the initiative which is aiming to help farmers across Great Britain improve their grassland productivity and pasture util

We have now almost completed the spring work, with spring barley coming through the ground fairly evenly and its top dressing of fertiliser being applied at the end of last week.

The annual barometer of native livestock breed numbers, the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s watchlist, has been released.But what could some of these breeds could offer UK agriculture in the future?

Miles and Halen Partridge established their Rowbrook herd of Galloways in the 1990s, but despite the history of the herd they have eyes firmly on the future.

The first cases of blowfly strike in 2020 have been reported in several locations in the UK.

A young farmer paid his own special tribute to frontline health workers by herding his sheep to spell out ’NHS’.

The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has expressed its concerns over a council’s decision to push on with the closure of Cowbridge livestock market, which could see farmers face a 45-mile round trip to sell their animals.

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.