Suffolk females led the Big Bang Export sale of pedigree sheep at Balmoral Park, Belfast, attracting five of the top six prices to include the event high of 10,000gns. The sale of Suffolk, Dutch ...
Charolais cross bullocks led the proceedings at United Auctions' store cattle sale, having sold to 353.10p per kg for a 328.50kg entry from Newbigging of Craighall, and to £2100 for a 695kg animal ...
The traditional view held by geneticists remains that inbreeding levels are preferable at a 6% or below threshold. It is at 6% and above when geneticists raise concerns that inbreeding has a ...
A project to protect a rare bird has inspired a farming family to help give them a fighting chance. Wyn and Lisa Morton, who run a farm in the Rhydtalog area near Llandegla, have joined a group of ...
A FARMER from Dorset has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 after slurry polluted a stream. Mark Pearson, of Hanford Farm in Hanford near Blandford Forum, appeared before Taunton Magistrates on ...
A farmer has said she will take further action after a school suspended her two daughters for taking part in a welly boot protest, writes Local Democracy Reporter Lee Trewhela. Alice Hatt and her ...
Promising results have been achieved from a trial that applied basalt rock dust to spring oats, and the product is being offered free of charge to farmers in selected parts of the region. It is part ...