Advice

Irregular and long working hours, fluctuations in prices and having to put down pigs on farm for animal welfare reasons are affecting farmers’ and workers’ mental health on pig and sheep farms.

Ensuring heifers have a long and productive life is crucial to maintaining a profitable dairy enterprise, and achieving optimal growth rates pre-weaning can help realise this.

Getting the transition period right can help achieve better results during lactation and improve overall cow health and productivity.

Providing a more accurate detection of lung consolidation, lung scanning proves to be a positive tool in detecting and managing pneumonia in calves.

Farmers Guardian’s news team talk about agriculture’s poor health and safety record as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launch a campaign to reduce deaths and injuries from farm vehicles

Farm vehicles are the number one cause of death on British farms and are the focus of a new campaign from HSE.

A single case of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Cornwall this week.

An increase in quad thefts is adding extra pressure during lambing season

Standardisation of greenhouse gas (GHG) data is urgently needed if the ruminant livestock industry is to reach net zero.