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Beef & Lamb
29 May 2019
This practical event, run by AHDB & MLC Services Ltd, allows you to handle live animals and make your assessment of fat cover and conformation using the EUROP grid. You will then see the same animals on the hook in the chillers and the actual classification so you can compare the assessments made whilst the animals were alive.
9 May 2019
Feed is a major cost of keeping a suckler cow and has a huge impact on fertility, calving ease and calf performance. The cheapest form of feed available to livestock farmers is grass. It is estimated that we waste 30% of the grass we grow. Since becoming a Strategic farm, E.H Holdstock & Son have introduced new grassland leys through reseeding and are keen to explore rotational grazing in 2019.
13 December 2023
Helping farms cope when water supplies are cut
23 May 2019
The National Beef Association’s 2019 Beef Expo will be held on Thursday 23rd May at North West Auctions, Kendal. Bringing together the very best in British commercial and pedigree cattle, equipment, knowledge-sharing, and show classes for everyone involved in the industry.
17 April 2019
Making the food of love almost effortless could be the key to capturing shopper’s hearts on Valentine’s Day
12 April 2019
Understand how different Brexit scenarios could affect your farm business incomes
11 April 2019
Antibiotics are a medicine that in most cases should only be used to treat bacterial infections. Over-prescribing and the unnecessary use of antibiotics can increase the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Livestock producers have a responsibility to protect human and animal health by using antibiotics responsibly in order to minimise the risk of antibiotic resistance (AMR).
11 April 2019
Meat processor Trevor Bellis and Cumbrian farmer Colin Bateman are the newest board members for AHDB Beef & Lamb
17 August 2023
Do you know how your animals are performing and your costs of production? Collecting records and then analysing them is the best way to understand how your business is performing.