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Over 2,700 sheep flocked to Builth Wells for the annual NSA Wales and Border ram sale, setting two new records in both the Bluefaced Leicester and the Texel rings. Ellie Layton reports.

Rural thieves are targeting farm pick-up trucks, with more than twice as many vehicles stolen each month compared to last year, rural insurer NFU Mutual has warned. 

A dairy farm has been fined £52,650 after pleading guilty to several offences against animal health and welfare, animal by-products and feed legislation.

Residents fighting plans to build a 40-hectare industrial plant on a family farm in South Wales say the development will have a devastating impact not only on the local community and landscape, but also on the area’s tourism.

Rather than look at historic data coming out of dairy herds, Adam Clay, head of technical at NWF, said farmers should instead look at what ‘lead measures’ could be taken advantage of this winter.

The processor also said it was in talks with ‘frustrated’ aligned contract farmer groups as it continues its recruitment drive

A number of on-farm actions, each driving incremental change, will be required to meet industry net zero targets and Arla are looking at the impact protein efficiency has on yield and environmental performance.

The Aireburn herd from Skipton, North Yorkshire, has been crowned as the winner of the 2022 Holstein UK National Premier Herd Award.

Dairy farmers should be ‘massively proud’ of what they do every day and of the quality of food they produce, said John Allen, of Kite Consulting, speaking at one of the UK Dairy Day panel sessions.

Dairy farmers need to figure out what arrangements suited their individual circumstances if they wanted to have a secure future, according to Promar’s Andrew Suddes.