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Beef & Lamb
21 March 2024
Improving animal performance and reducing physical losses are key to ensuring sheep farming is profitable. This manual takes into account various factors, including the sheep farming system, ewe body condition, nutrition, health planning and management with the aim of reducing lamb losses
14 July 2021
In the week ended 1 February the GB all prime average remained steady at 331.9p/kg.
14 July 2021
Cattle throughputs across the EUROP grid in England and Wales and Scotland, 2019
19 August 2025
Is lucerne suitable for your farm? This series helps you decide, exploring costs of establishment and choosing suitable sites to grow it.
14 July 2021
The deadweight cattle price has been pressured throughout 2019, but what effect has this had on stores
13 July 2021
Lamb farmgate prices have again recorded some week-on-week rises. In the week ended 29 January, the GB liveweight OSL SQQ increased 4p.
28 January 2022
A new report published by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) suggested the increasing use of low-carbon farming practices, improving animal health, precision farming, planting more trees, restoring peatland, increasing the planted area of bioenergy crops and reducing food waste would help to achieve reductions in emissions.
13 July 2021
France and Germany have both received reduced amounts of New Zealand lamb in the year to November 2019
14 July 2021
The USDA is forecasting 2020 beef production to be 12.514 million tonnes, higher than in 2019
14 July 2021
Movements on GB prime deadweight markets were relatively mixed in the week ending 25 January.
14 July 2021
Total beef exports (including offal) increased 13% in 2019 with the vast majority of the increase coming from a 53% increase in exports to China.
13 July 2021
The GB deadweight old season lamb (OSL) SQQ rose by 1% for the week ending 18 January, averaging 454.7p/kg.