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The Livestock Auctioneers Association said the figures showed the importance of the auction mart system

Our yearlings are lambing well, apart from the occasional large single. We designed the lambing shed so we did not have far to go to reach a bonding pen, which helps immensely with reluctant first time mums.

Increasing the amount of carbon in UK soils will be key to achieving the farming industry’s goal of accomplishing net zero by 2040, with recent data identifying that 5 MtCO2e/year could be stored in soil.

Marcus Doig, 27, graduated from Harper Adams University after spending a year in industry learning all aspects of modern dairy farming. He now manages a family owned 243-hectare dairy in Somerset, milking 300 cows. 

Just like teenagers, cows are influenced by the group around them and need to be given choices, independence and rules, said New Zealand vet Neil Chesterton in a recent AHDB webinar.

A leading mental health farming charity in Wales has said controversial new regulations which introduce closed periods for slurry spreading are ‘likely to cause stress’ for farmers.

Averages were up at the spring show and sale of suckled calves at Carlisle which peaked at 7,000

Cumbrian farmers have highlighted a ‘catalogue of errors’ by the Environment Agency (EA) and Rivers Trust in their approaches to water management and flooding.

A farming family in Lancashire have been left disheartened after thieves stole money from an honesty box.