With lamb performance heavily reliant on the ewe’s milk supply, ensuring ewes are in the best condition pre-and post-lambing is key to achieving high lamb growth rates.
Ensuring heifers have a long and productive life is crucial to maintaining a profitable dairy enterprise, and achieving optimal growth rates pre-weaning can help realise this.
Getting the transition period right can help achieve better results during lactation and improve overall cow health and productivity.
Providing a more accurate detection of lung consolidation, lung scanning proves to be a positive tool in detecting and managing pneumonia in calves.
After the success of the first round of funding in 2022, Katie Fallon looks at what is involved in round two of the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund.
In response to summer droughts and rising input costs, can farmers continue to rely solely on grass leys to finish lambs?
At an AHDB event in Cumbria, Dr Awal Fuseini, halal sector senior manager at AHDB, discussed the halal market, focusing on both the misconceptions and positive opportunities it presents to UK sheep farmers.
An important element of the dairy cow’s diet, starch is often overlooked, but is a key component throughout the cow’s life, says Dugdale Nutrition’s veterinary technical manager Debby Brown.
A new research project led by Cranfield University aims to understand the challenges both farmers and vets face when implementing Johne’s controls on-farm.
With the interpretation that livestock production is destroying the planet, has the role which ruminants play within society been forgotten?