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The non-MV accredited sheep section took place on Tuesday when inter-breed judge, Jim Robertson, Langholm, awarded the supreme title to the Bluefaced Leicester crossing type champion.

Introducing automated carcase classification will boost confidence livestock are being classified consistently and accurately, according to the Welsh farming unions.

Grahames Precious, a 17-month-old Limousin heifer from Robert and Jean Graham, Stirling, led the continental section on the second day of beef judging at the Royal Highland Showcase event.

The limit on the number of people at weddings has been scrapped from June 21 but other restrictions remain in place

It is the season for maggots, each female green bottle fly can lay 250 eggs in the fleece and they can hatch out after only 12 hours.

Some of you may know I chair Cattle Health Certification Standards (CHECS), which has set standards for cattle disease control in the UK and Ireland for more than 20 years.

June is here and looking like being ‘flaming June’. May’s monsoon conditions provided challenges.

Practical glyphosate application guidelines, published by the Weed Resistance Action Group (WRAG), aims to help arable growers reduce the increasing risk of glyphosate resistance developing in grass-weeds.

In conjunction with Bayer we will be keeping track of winter wheat development over two cultivation strategies, and using Rapid Disease Detection results to monitor disease progress through the season.

Sandwell Park farm has tightened its security following the recent theft of ewes, lambs and a calf from the site and a spate of illegal butchering activity in the area.