sheep

The cooperative will lease the site out to site to Scottish meat processors Millers of Speyside

The NSA has warned a Home Office decision to deny overseas sheep shearers a concession to enter the UK without work visas risks ending a rich tradition of cultural and educational exchange

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland that rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill

The first Scrapie genotyping service providing UK sheep breeders with eight additional markers for commercial traits, together with the ability to verify parentage and pedigree

Preliminary results of the Forage for CH4nge project were shared with farmers at a meeting in Leyburn, North Yorkshire

Making small, but significant tweaks to lambing management procedures can dramatically improve lamb survival

For some, lambing has already started. Here are some classic pictures of families and farmers lambing over the year

Nicola is a third-generation farmer from Aberdeenshire. Alongside her dad, George, she farms 560 hectares (1,400 acres) with 240 Simmental cross suckler cows and 1,000 Scotch Mule ewes and a small acreage of spring barley, forage rape and neeps to feed the livestock. She is also known as @livestock_farmher on social media where she gives her view of farming life

A stalwart of livestock farming, John Hall looks back on his life, from national fatstock championships to foot-and-mouth, and his family who have kept him going throughout

On Monday (January 12) three gimmer lambs were reported missing from Lane end Farm in Bradford