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Beef & Lamb
18 May 2022
Ruminant News spring/summer 2022 - with the recent rise in the cost of living and energy bills, this issue is very much focused on reducing fixed costs on farm. One farmer talks about reducing labour and medicine costs through using Targeted Selective Treatment when it comes to their worm control within his flock, whilst a beef suckler farmer talks about how he has reduced fertiliser use and reduced feed costs by optimising his grazing and has increased his outputs by doubling his herd size. The magazine also contains the fantastic results in changing consumer buying habits following the We Eat Balanced campaign and there are some dates for your diary on the back too.
16 May 2022
Overwhelmingly positive feedback from levy payers
27 October 2022
It’s been a tough year for grassland managers. Growing half of his normal dry matter has tested James Muir’s ability to adapt and build resilience into a 400-cow spring-calving business.
28 July 2022
Meet grazing consultant Andre van Barneveld who returned to New Zealand to buy a dairy farm.
12 May 2022
Beef production totalled 73,000 tonnes, up 1% year-on-year.
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12 May 2022
The main driver for the increase in year-on-year production is due to an increase in slaughter numbers in 2022.
11 May 2022
The GB all-prime average deadweight cattle price averaged 438.9p/kg in the week ending 7 May.
11 May 2022
Join us to learn about the key findings from a recent AHDB-funded PhD that investigated which key performance indicators can have the biggest impact on sheep farms.
11 May 2022
Matt Blyth and Challenge Sheep project farmer, Ian Wilson, looking at how the use of electronic identification (EID) can aid decision making on farm to improve performance.
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11 May 2022
Promoting ewe longevity has been a key focus for AHDB’s Challenge Sheep project, which aims to further understand influences on ewe lifetime performance and best practice for managing replacement ewes.