Livestock News

Two industry stalwarts have been named in the King’s Birthday Honours List for their services to farming.

The National Sheep Association said the Welsh Government has not responded to its requests to join the new Farming Roundtable.

After surging prices in the first half of 2024, the sheep meat sector will be challenged in the second half of the year with falling production and tight budgets impacting consumer demand.

The NFU is writing to leading police organisations in England to find out more about how an escaped calf recently came to be hit by a police car.

The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Wales) Order 2024 will be introduced on 1st July.

Jeremy Clarkson spoke out following the horrific incident when a cow was injured by a police car in Staines-upon-Thames. 

The Food Museum in Stowmarket has just announced the birth of a rare Suffolk Punch horse on the site for the first time in 100 years. 

Heidi Bell is one of only eight Babydoll sheep breeders in the UK, and she’s determined to save this incredibly rare breed.

Two administrators have been appointed and nearly half of Mona Dairy’s staff made redundant, after the plant failed to get sufficient funding.

A great calibre of livestock was in attendance at this year’s Royal Bath & West Show, and no stone was left unturned by judges in the ring, the organiser confirms. 

Major milk processor Müller has reached an agreement to acquire Yew Tree Dairy, which currently has around 100 Scottish dairy farming suppliers.

Baled grass silage can be as good as clamped silage, but it is essential to employ equal attention to detail when making it, starting by cutting grass at the optimum time, said a Volac silage expert.