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26 January 2023
Being clear about what you’re trying to achieve on your farm and using your system to select the cows that fit, is how Nerbas Bros. Aberdeen Angus, Canada, have developed a profitable suckler cow that works for them.
25 January 2023
Being clear about what you’re trying to achieve on your farm and using your system to select the cows that fit, is how Nerbas Bros. Aberdeen Angus, Canada, have developed a profitable suckler cow that works for them.
5 April 2024
Find out what's new for dairy breeding and genetics
26 October 2022
A change of mindset is needed to reduce the size of Holstein cows across the national herd
6 December 2022
Genomic inbreeding is a powerful and accurate way to assess animal inbreeding.
11 October 2022
This manual provides new guidelines for ultrasound scanning of sheep for muscle and fat depth. Ultrasound scanning provides measures for body composition in sheep breeding programmes, designed to enhance carcase yield and conformation, while optimising fatness.
11 October 2022
In the 25 years since the introduction of across-flock evaluations, more than 3 million terminal sire sheep records have been analysed by Signet Breeding Services. This analysis has been carried out by using a dataset of over 650,000 ultrasound scans for muscle and fat depth, and over 10,000 images from computed tomography (CT). The UK breeds sheep with world-leading terminal sire genetics and has some of the best tools for measuring and analysing sheep in the world.
17 November 2022
Join Severn Edge Farm Vets and AHDB Beef & Lamb for this opportunity to see the internal effects of parasite damage via demonstrations of sheep post-mortems
27 October 2022
The amount of methane produced per kilogramme of lamb sold is an important consideration for farmers and supply chains looking to reduce their environmental footprint.
22 August 2022
Farmers and geneticists are united in the aim to reduce the size of Holstein cows
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29 September 2022
How we manage suckler cows during pregnancy can have a big impact on calf lifetime performance.
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1 August 2022
Tickets now on sale for Sheep Breeders Round Table – a Premier conference for UK sheep farmers