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The provision and quality of water is paramount to overall cow health and performance, but these are areas of management which are often overlooked.

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.

From 2025 UK cattle farmers could be required by the Government to feed their stock methane suppressants in a bid to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hit net zero by 2050.

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.

As the most common ‘iceberg’ disease in the UK sheep industry, increased awareness of ovine Johne’s disease at a farm level is key to managing the disease. Katie Fallon reports.

In response to summer droughts and rising input costs, can farmers continue to rely solely on grass leys to finish lambs?

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.

With a high protein content and the ability to maintain yields, forage peas could provide the alternative protein source dairy farmers have been searching for.