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For rural and farming communities across Wales, the Welsh language is as integral to everyday society and culture as it has been for generations.

Agricultural and food diversity has been a big part of Britain’s culture and heritage with classic regional produce and many native sheep breeds among asests assigned to particular regions and counties.

With family farming history spanning 150 years at Cairns Farm, fourth generation sheep famers Caroline and Graham Hamilton were keen to secure a viable business future for the next generation.

Future farm support could be based around knowledge exchange rather than meeting specific targets, animal scientists at disease research centre Moredun have said.

A toolkit that assesses the ammonia emissions risk posed by a farm has been put forward as an alternative to environmental permitting, which is currently on-track to be extended to ‘dairy and intensive beef farms’ by 2025.

Dairy farms are at risk of being priced out of complying with rule changes anticipated on the back of environmental permitting, currently on-track to be extended to ‘dairy and intensive beef farms’ by 2025.

Mounting legislative requirements to reduce nitrogen (N) and ammonia output from dairy farms coupled with price volatility around soya and other protein sources in dairy cow diets means alternatives are now being seriously.

An independent ethics body is calling on the Government to put animal welfare front and centre of new gene editing (GE) technology regulation.

A perspective on the way in which genomic data has helped to transform future selection and breeding of sheep in New Zealand was delivered at this year’s online Sheep Breeders Round Table conference.

A collective of the world’s largest animal health companies is reportedly ‘on track or ahead of schedule’ across all commitments made as part of a plan to help reduce the need for antibiotics.