animal welfare

Teamwork, passion and attention to detail are key drivers behind the calf rearing unit at Metcalfe Farms and their youngstock success

75 highly skilled sheep shearers have been stopped from entering the UK which would have helped prevent heat stroke and disease during the warm months, says MP

Caerfyrddin MP Ann Davies writes on the unsustainable drop in dairy prices, farmers being treated as bargaining chips in trade deals, and why maintaining British farmers' high-quality food standards must be codified into law to stop lower welfare food from entering the UK

Livestock farmer says delays risk undoing any progress on 'devastating disease'

Latest Efra Committee report calls for Gov to consider actions to avoid undermining animal welfare and precision breeding progress

The Welsh Government has announced initial funding towards a programme which will help farmers prepare for the Sustainable Farming Scheme

This week from Farmers Guardian deputy editor Alex Black

The supermarket says it is important farmers are paid a fair price, so it reviews its farmgate prices regularly to reflect farmers’ costs

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Ex-pig farmer John Walmsley, Blackburn, warns that higher welfare laws could once again undercut British farmers if trade protections are not enforced

The new Animal Welfare Strategy for England was debated in parliament on Wednesday (January 22)