Welfare
14 February 2025
Tom Forshaw looks at the contentious issue of food standards in future trade deals and why media attention might be focusing on the wrong things.
16 July 2021
This report from the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) recounts the activities of the council during 2019 and 2020.
5 July 2021
Our feeding for efficiency webinar is ideal for anyone looking to improve their technical knowledge on feeding traditional small-scale pig breeds.
28 June 2021
Farm vet Robert Smith demonstrates the key principles you need to adhere to when administering anthelmintic wormers to livestock.
22 June 2021
Ram breeding provides the genetics to increase the productivity of your customer’s flock. Performance recording means you can select and market the sheep with the most profitable genetics. Recording crossbred rams uses the same process as a pedigree flock, but you should consider hybrid vigour, ram and progeny uniformity and comparison of sheep.
15 June 2021
Tim Downes, alongside vet Nathan Loewenstein and dairy building expert Ian Ohnstad explore how to make the most from your buildings at calving.
17 February 2025
Learn about some of the best suppliers of pig herd management software and understand how you can benefit from managing your pig herd more efficiently and effectively.
25 May 2021
An overview of the Ruminant Health & Welfare survey results, priorities and how they’re going to be tackled.
12 May 2021
Meet the Challenge Sheep farmers. A project to develop best practice for managing replacement ewes as well as a better understanding of how the rearing phase can affect a ewe’s lifetime performance.
22 March 2021
After the initial five years of research, funding has now been confirmed for RamCompare t continue into the third phase
25 March 2025
Joe Carter's Holstein herd achieves an impressive daily lifetime yield of 20.4 litres.
