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BREEDING AND CALVES SPECIAL: Using probiotics to boost calf health

Livestock

BREEDING AND CALVES SPECIAL: Using probiotics to boost calf health

CALVES are constantly faced with a barrage of attacks by pathogens but research shows supplementation with immune-boosting probiotics could help to tip the balance in their favour.

clock 29 May 2020 • 3 min read
Late Glastir payments prompt concern about Welsh post-Brexit scheme

Arable

Late Glastir payments prompt concern about Welsh post-Brexit scheme

Around half of Welsh farmers who applied for Glastir payments for 2019 commitments were still waiting for their money at the start of May, prompting concern about how the planned post-Brexit scheme will function.

clock 29 May 2020 • 1 min read
The Scottish Ag Bill cannot allow Ministers to change policy without scrutiny

Arable

The Scottish Ag Bill cannot allow Ministers to change policy without scrutiny

The Scottish Agriculture Bill needs a sunset clause to stop Ministers being able to change policy without scrutiny over the coming decades, says Mike Rumbles, MSP for the North East of Scotland.

clock 29 May 2020 • 2 min read
Talking policy with Matt Culley: A 50% drop in demand for malt is too big for the industry to cope with

Arable

Talking policy with Matt Culley: A 50% drop in demand for malt is too big for the industry to cope with

clock 29 May 2020 • 3 min read
Fungicide stewardship advice updated following loss of CTL

Arable

Fungicide stewardship advice updated following loss of CTL

In response to withdrawal of the multisite fungicide, chlorothalonil on May 20, the Fungicide Resistance Action Group (FRAG) has updated its fungicide resistance stewardship advice.

clock 29 May 2020 • 2 min read
First Milk to appoint Mike Smith as new farmer director

Dairy

First Milk to appoint Mike Smith as new farmer director

First Milk has announced today (May 28) Mr Smith will succeed Jim Baird as a new farmer director.

clock 29 May 2020 • 2 min read
Dog attacks on livestock rise amid coronavirus 'lockdown'

Farm Life

Dog attacks on livestock rise amid coronavirus 'lockdown'

Walkers who are not familiar with the countryside and have descended on the countryside during the coronavirus lockdown are thought to behind a rise in the number of dog attacks on livestock.

clock 29 May 2020 • 1 min read
View from the hill: US keen to avoid UK pork industry food fight

Livestock

View from the hill: US keen to avoid UK pork industry food fight

US National Pork Producers Council and American hog producers do not want a ‘food fight’ with the UK pig industry writes John Wilkes.

clock 29 May 2020 • 2 min read
Banning imports is a non-starter, but there are other ways to protect our food standards

Arable

Banning imports is a non-starter, but there are other ways to protect our food standards

Banning imports is an impractical and probably illegal idea which was always doomed to fail, but there are other ways to protect our domestic food standards, says Cambridgeshire Fens farmer Tom Clarke.

clock 29 May 2020 • 5 min read
The Government has displayed a failure of imagination on post-Brexit trade policy

Arable

The Government has displayed a failure of imagination on post-Brexit trade policy

In promising to uphold the UK’s high food production standards, but refusing to explain how, the Government has displayed a failure of imagination on post-Brexit trade policy, says Tom Lancaster, acting head of land, seas and climate policy at the RSPB.

clock 29 May 2020 • 4 min read