Livestock News

Scientists have been able to demonstrate the automated detection of lameness in sheep using novel sensing technology, which could improve health and welfare on farm.

British dairy needs the right investment and trade agreement to grow and deliver quality products, the NFU has said at the first big dairy conference of the year.

UK trials have shown a new sow feed can improve piglet birth weights and reduce the number of stillbirths when added to transition and lactating sow diets.

Farms stricken by bovine TB can now access a rapid detection test at a reduced cost, after the government issued new guidelines on the use of non-validated tests.

Seven highland cows have been given a new home on a Lancashire nature reserve, where they can live out the rest of their days helping to improve grassland for wildlife.

Heavy rainfall and saturated ground conditions have left pastures lacking in nutrients for out-wintered sucklers and ewes, nutritionists have warned.

New farmer Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he doesn’t have a sheepdog and instead tried to herd his sheep using a drone with a speaker attached to the top.

An outbreak of H5 low pathogenic avian flu was confirmed on a commercial chicken farm in mid-Suffolk last night (10 December).

Students at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have voted to reverse a controversial ban on beef at Union food outlets.

Dairy and beef calves can now be inoculated against the key causes of viral pneumonia from one week of age, MSD Animal Health has announced.

Pig producers now have a new defence against salmonella in their armoury, with the launch of Salmoporc, the only licensed vaccine for the disease in the UK and Ireland.

Farmers have welcomed the news that Waitrose will source all of its own label lamb from British producers by summer 2021.