Vets and farmers are being encouraged to make use of a new flock health planning tool which promotes proactive vet/farmer engagement and a move towards a preventative, rather than reactive, approach to flock health management
Farm-based charity Siblings Reunited has been hosting reunions for sibling groups split up by the care system or through adoption for almost a decade. Hannah Park reports.
Hopes are high that findings of a new genomic study could pave the way for action to save the rare native Lop pig breed.
This month’s #FarmingCAN special feature explores how creating a positive rhetoric with the public is becoming increasingly important for agriculture
This month’s #FarmingCAN special feature explores how creating a positive rhetoric with the public is becoming increasingly important for agriculture.
From the end of March 2022, sheep, goat and deer farmers, markets, collection centres and abattoirs in England will report animal movements via the Livestock Information Service (LIS) which will replace the current Animal Rep
Exhibitors and spectators were back in force as this year’s Borderway UK Dairy Expo event got underway on what the shows tenth anniversary. Hannah Park and Katie Fallon report.
A coordinated, cross-border effort, supported by more legislative back-up, holds the key to eradicating sheep scab longer term, sheep industry delegates have said.
This month, Hannah Park and Emily Ashworth look at the skills which are vital to rural livelihoods.
Diversifying was the only option for this Scottish hill farm. Hannah Park finds out how their new wedding venture is flourishing.