Advice

Trace minerals play a crucial role in late pregnancy and around lambing, so ensuring diets are balanced to meet ewe requirements should be a high priority.

With the busiest period of sheep farming just around the corner, health planning now plays a crucial role in reducing lamb and ewe losses.

Rafoxanide is not an appropriate alternative to closantel when treating liver fluke, farmers warned.

Sheep producers are being urged to plan carefully for their peak lambing season and put the focus on sound preventative health practices to mitigate key disease risks in lambs.

The benefits of getting ewe nutrition right in the late stages of pregnancy is well-known and can have a huge impact on colostrum quality and yield.

Remote monitoring tools could be a solution to the problem of recruiting staff into dairy farming. Farmers Guardian takes a look at some New Zealand technolgy, which is now being aimed at the UK market.

We catch up with one farmer who is saving the back-breaking work of fencing with an Australian-made petrol-powered post driver.

With the emphasis on mechanically simple, straightforward, 110hp loader tractors, this group comparison test looks at some of the latest machines on the market which are aimed squarely at the livestock sector.

The pressure is on as baling gets underway, but extra attention to set-up, baling and wrapping technique, and care of net and plastic can make all the difference to bale quality.