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Livestock farmers are being encouraged to investigate all unexplained abortions or stillbirths in their herds or flocks.

Herd health and fertility performance is continuing to approve according to NMR’s latest key performance indicator (KPI) report.

Milk cooling, water heating and vacuum pumps account for the biggest proportion of energy use on a dairy farm and therefore offer the greatest scope for savings, says energy specialist Chris Brooks.

The latest inflation figures may have been unexpected for economists and politicians but they came as ’no surprise’ to food producers.

Cattle keepers on Anglesey are to receive additional advice from Welsh Government over the next few days, which it says is to help keep TB incidence on the island low.

Six thousand miles away and 3,000m above sea level it might be, but talk around the farmhouse table at Hacienda La Alegria, Ecuador, features familiar themes. Liz Falkingham reports.

Numbers were up at Borderway Dairy Expo, Carlisle, with more than 400 cattle entered including those from 23 new exhibitors.

Dairy farmers in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand’s North Island are counting the cost of major destruction caused by Cyclone Gabrielle. Chris McCullough reports.

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.

Reaseheath College’s apprentice Grace Nellist shares an insight into her Level 5 Advanced Dairy Technologist route of study, which equips her with the skills to develop, produce and control dairy products.