The 2018 heatwave will have long-term consequences for crops and livestock nutrition with farmers having to reach into winter reserves of food and forage, the Royal…
Month: August 2018
Through a collaboration between Rabobank, MS Schippers and Van Loon Group, pig farmers are offered financial support in their transition to HyCare. The investment fund offers…
AHDB’s Ben Williams (pictured below) outlines how gathering and analysis of data delivers small gains for success. A range of exciting technology is available to help…
Caroline Stocks reports on the four-step plan to help stay on top of this worrying viral disease. It’s the most costly pig disease around the world, costing…
Red Robin, our producer and industry insider, explains how they are coping with the prolonged summer heatwave – and made a surprising zinc discovery. A very…
The livestock sector will unite behind the development of a “game-changing” digital data system which could prove central to post-Brexit prospects. An agreement with Defra for…
Demand for animal protein and increasing wealth fuelled a tripling in the domestic production of livestock in China between 1980 and 2010, and the rise, despite…
Future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease can be combatted quickly and efficiently from early on – when authorities have minimal information – thanks to a new…
Farmers will benefit from new flexibility in water abstraction rules and the ability to trade water between farms to cope with the impacts of the ongoing…
Fiona Bennett has been a veterinary surgeon at Garth Pig Practice, based in East Yorkshire, since October 2016 having qualified from Liverpool University Writing this in…