Content related to the topic: beef-lamb

15 September 2025

Beef & Lamb Farm Excellence

Everything you need to know about our Farm Excellence programme and how to get involved.

8 November 2022

UK sheep facts and figures

Easy access to the latest information for the UK sheep industry from numbers on farm through to consumption.

30 January 2025

Lameness in sheep - treatment and diagnosis

There are quite a few different treatments and protocols for treating lame sheep. If you haven’t already, talk to your vet about creating a plan of action to devise the most appropriate treatments tailored for your flock’s disease problems and circumstances

8 July 2025

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD)

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is a highly contagious viral disease of cattle. It is one of the biggest disease issues facing the UK cattle industry.

3 June 2020

Consumer Insights: Demand for Halal Meat

The UK halal food sector is one that is of growing importance to the national economy. Spend in the UK halal food and beverage industry in 2016 reached an estimated £4.64 billion, or 8% of the UK’s total food and drink spend.

14 August 2025

Drought - how to manage the continued dry weather

Join Leah Shanks, AHDB Beef & Lamb knowledge exchange manager as she chats to colleagues and farmers about how the drought could affect farming this season.

29 May 2020

Dry weather case study - Ian Norbury

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

29 May 2020

Dry weather case study - Sam Jones

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.

16 February 2023

Sheep Antimicrobial Usage Tool

calculator designed to provide an estimation of antimicrobial usage on sheep farms

24 April 2026

Improving the lifetime performance of ewes

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

Worming advice from Challenge Sheep farmer Rob Hawke

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

22 May 2024

Worming advice from Strategic Farmer Adrian Coombe

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