Dairy & Beef News

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.

Today marks World Milk Day, an international awareness day that celebrates the importance of dairy products. 

Representatives of four UK farming unions agreed that there are real potential benefits of introducing bovine Electronic Identification (bEID), from efficiency and animal health and welfare gains to improving the health and safety of livestock handlers. 

In a recent AHDB Food & Farming podcast, experts gathered to discuss the likelihood of a vaccine for the latest strain of bluetongue virus, which began to appear on farms in Kent and Norfolk last year. Sarah Kidby reports.

Mona Dairy, in Anglesey, has advised its milk suppliers that an alternative company will be processing milk for an interim period, after it failed to secure stakeholder funding.

Farmers out on their tractors and dog walkers will be among the target audience for a new Cumbrian podcast on animal care and welfare.

The government has set out its plan for tackling an outbreak of BTV-3 this summer, as it works to deploy a vaccine.

The functioning rumen can be regarded as the boiler house of the bovine animal. Even a slight malfunction in its operation will have profound and widespread metabolic and financial consequences. Dr T.B Barragry, independent veterinary consultant for Provita Eurotech Ltd, offers some advice.

Two vaccines are now available for BTV-3, which first emerged late last year, and have been granted emergency authorisation in two countries.

North Wales Police have launched an appeal after a two-day-old Highland calf was stolen from Denbighshire farmland.