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With the environmental impact of livestock farming under increased scrutiny, what can farmers do to be as sustainable as possible?

The Government has said it plans to phase out ‘intensive’ badger culling in high-risk areas of England during the next phase of its 25-year strategy to stamp out bovine TB.

Nearly half a billion pounds worth of livestock was sold through Scotland’s auction marts in 2019.

Pasture is an important reservoir for production-limiting parasites, which makes pasture management a crucial part of parasite control.

A cohort of agricultural organisations have joined forces to demand the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reform ‘inaccurate’ greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) calculators.

Footage filmed undercover at an abattoir by Animal Aid activists which appeared to show sheep being mistreated has been ruled inadmissible by a court judge.

Latest figures from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) show almost 99 per cent of eligible farmers under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) have received payment by February 29, a 1.4 per cent improvement on last year.

Heifers led the way at Leyburn’s spring spectacular with Garrowby Farms, Bugthorpe, taking home the championship, under judge Elizabeth Vance, Newton Stewart, with a Limousin heifer.

Farmers have branded the move to ban beef from student union-led outlets at the London School of Economics (LSE) a ‘knee jerk’ response to fighting climate change.

Selling on the deadweight gives control to buyers, but if all slaughter stock was sold at auction, competition and prices would almost certainly increase, says Neil Farmer, an arable and sheep farmer from the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.