Environment

8 July 2020

Guidance on the nutritional requirements of gilts

29 May 2020

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

29 May 2020

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.

28 May 2020

24 April 2026

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

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

22 May 2024

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

16 June 2020

How to keep sows and gilts calm while piglets feed in an indoor farrowing environment

28 March 2025

Liver fluke is a parasite that affects the health and welfare of livestock, specifically cattle and sheep. This research investigates whether liver fluke in silage poses a risk to livestock.

16 April 2020

Investigating new systems which will make beef cattle more efficient to produce, less damaging to the environment and yet still more cost-effective for farmers

17 September 2026

A project investigating the impact of body condition and mating ewes as ewe lambs or shearlings on lifetime performance.

4 December 2024

Important advice on managing biosecurity risks on your pig unit site