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A determined Belgian couple with a go-getter attitude, supported by their team of working border collies, have carved out a new farming life in Scotland

The cooperative will lease the site out to site to Scottish meat processors Millers of Speyside

The NSA has warned a Home Office decision to deny overseas sheep shearers a concession to enter the UK without work visas risks ending a rich tradition of cultural and educational exchange

Tom Ashton was a founder member of both the British Blue Cattle Society and the Beltex Sheep Society

The first Scrapie genotyping service providing UK sheep breeders with eight additional markers for commercial traits, together with the ability to verify parentage and pedigree

Preliminary results of the Forage for CH4nge project were shared with farmers at a meeting in Leyburn, North Yorkshire

Making small, but significant tweaks to lambing management procedures can dramatically improve lamb survival

Voters were asked to choose from 12 fleecy contenders each representing the diversity and charm of the UK’s native breeds

The sheep industry must actively engage with Defra’s long-awaited consultation on castration and tail docking methods to ensure future policy reflects the realities of commercial sheep farming, the National Sheep Association (NSA) has said.

Few Beltex breeders see their sheep as other than a carcase and terminal sire breed, but one farming couple in Perthshire believe Beltex wool has a value worth exploiting