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Despite everything that has been thrown at them in terms of adverse weather and Covid-19 restrictions, it seems from an early estimate that Scottish farmers may have produced their biggest harvest for 10 years.

A new breed record of 18,000gns was set for a Herdwick ram at the Keswick show and sale on behalf of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association at Cockermouth.

Farmers can apply for a share of £25 million as part of round three of the Countryside Productivity Small Grants scheme.

Emma Watson had been upset by an anonymous complaint to the RSPCA. An inspector confirmed there were no issues with the flock’s welfare

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been jointly awarded to two women for the development of a method of genome editing used in animal and plant science.

Defra Secretary George Eustice has said growers should look to hire hospitality workers who are set to lose their jobs during the pandemic to fill labour shortages.

TWO lambs selling for 30,000 apiece and ram lambs averaging 2,206, a 766 increase on the year, were the highlights of the Bluefaced Leicester sale at Hawes.

An independent report commissioned by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Livestock has concluded new methods of mitigating carbon emissions from livestock production must be found to reach net zero targets by 2050.

With more data in from Scotland, the 2020 average treated yield of control varieties from 14 AHDB Recommended List (RL) spring barley trials is 7.94 tonnes/hectare, ahead of the five-year average

Trade Secretary Liz Truss has warned it is ‘dangerous’ for the UK sheep sector to be so heavily reliant on the EU market for lamb exports.