Environment

8 May 2024

Guidance on the nutritional requirements of growing and finishing pigs

1 June 2020

Join AHDB Beef and Lamb for a discussion with Independent Livestock Sustainability Consultant, Dr Jude Capper from Oxfordshire and farmer and Chairman of Exmoor Hill Farming Network, Dave Knight, to share what farmers on Exmoor are doing to face the challenges and opportunities.

8 July 2020

Guidance on the nutritional requirements of gilts

29 May 2020

The weather is certainly throwing some challenges our way this year and the biggest impact is the reduced grass growth.

29 May 2020

We have gone from the wettest February to the driest April and May, and it doesn’t look as though there is rain coming anytime soon.

28 May 2020

5 February 2025

Prepare and plan for delays to shearing service due to social distancing measures in place to control COVID-19.

9 June 2021

To redress outdated figures, we have a large project underway to measure the ammonia emissions from different pig buildings in the UK

24 April 2026

Challenge Sheep is a research project to develop best practice for managing replacement ewes and understand the impact of the rearing phase on a ewe’s lifetime performance.

22 May 2024

First generation farmers Rob and Anna Hawke joined the AHDB Beef & Lamb-funded project, Challenge Sheep, when it began in 2017.

22 May 2024

Strategic Farmer, Adrian Coombe, farms with his wife Lyn, and father Peter, at Dupath Farm in Callington, Cornwall.

16 June 2020

How to keep sows and gilts calm while piglets feed in an indoor farrowing environment