Lamb
9 April 2024
This booklet provides an accurate, easy-to-use reference guide on all available anti-parasitic products in their various chemical groups and summarises the parasites they have been licensed to control.
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
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
3 March 2020
AHDB Beef & Lamb is always looking for ways to educate, inform and inspire the meat industry and we have found our course looking at the science behind the quality of red meat to be a great way to demonstrate to those working in the industry the whole farm to fork story.
30 January 2020
Do you want some top tips on how to run an efficient sheep enterprise? Listen to a webinar from sheep farmer Duncan Nelless, from Thistleyhaugh Farm, where he will talk about how he runs his low - cost sheep enterprise.
13 July 2021
The GB deadweight old season lamb (OSL) SQQ rose by 1% for the week ending 18 January, averaging 454.7p/kg.
13 July 2021
Red meats have been struggling at retail in the past few weeks
13 July 2021
UK sheep meat production was 26,700 tonnes in December, steady compared to the same month in 2018
13 July 2021
Sheep prices stay buoyant in the week ended 11 January, bringing the GB deadweight OSL SQQ to 450.3p/kg
22 January 2020
Reducing the impact of the wet weather on this year’s lamb crop