Livestock News

UK agriculture has made remarkable strides in productivity, efficiency, and technological innovation. However, certain aspects can be outdated on some farms – like livestock handling and welfare standards – which is where people management and forward-thinking leadership could help.

Farmers have been advised to assess their feed requirements as soon as possible due to the continuing dry weather.

Farming bosses said that pace and delivery on the bovine TB strategy must improve to ensure comprehensive change.

Iceland has abandoned its 2025 cage-free egg commitment, becoming the first among major UK retailers to do so, the British Free Range Egg Producers Association has confirmed. 

A number of larger-than-normal lambs have been delivered at Norfolk’s Gawdy Hall Estate this month.

The farming industry has been urged to reassess their approach to managing neonatal calf diarrhoea, following new evidence showing an alarming rise in resistance to paromomycin, a commonly used antibiotic for treating E.coli K99 infections. 

800 goats have been killed in a barn fire in East Yorkshire. 

Minimising disease risks posed to your sheep and by your sheep at shearing is critical in maintaining flock health on farm and across the wider industry, sheep industry leaders said.

Sheep farmers in South Wales have been warned of the risk of blowfly strike as the local Blowfly Watch risk alert has been raised to red.

Defra has just announced that mandatory housing measures for poultry and captive birds, which were introduced across various counties to prevent the spread of bird flu, will be lifted from Thursday 15th May. 

As the UK beef sector is expected to face a growing supply and demand gap by 2030, needing an additional 278,000 tonnes of beef to reach self-sufficiency, Quality Meat Scotland said that two additional cows per herd each year could solve the problem.

There are concerns that two agricultural sectors have been singled out to shoulder the burden of the removal of tariffs for other industries in the economy.