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Livestock
16 April 2025
AHDB believes that thriving, sustainable, highly productive business for UK farmers and growers and their supply chain partners delivers a lower environmental impact and goes hand-in-hand with valuing and enhancing the natural environment.
30 December 2024
Explore how you compare against our optimal dairy system key performance indicators to help establish what we can learn from each other
19 October 2021
Benchmark your performance against Statfold Farm and identify areas for improvement
26 June 2018
A new project funded by AHDB Beef & Lamb will identify profitable best practice and help address some of the significant challenges that face the calf rearing sector, including reducing antibiotic use and the welfare of calves
12 December 2023
An emphasis on calf management and investment in new facilities reduce age at first calving by four months and more than double pregnancy
8 July 2024
Learn how Farm Excellence is benefiting David Goodier's 230-sow pig farm
13 December 2023
Discover how Sam Jones is protecting his flock and cutting costs
3 June 2019
Learn how blood testing is reducing costs at Dairy Farm
22 June 2018
Learn how Beef & Lamb Strategic Farmer Ian Norbury is making his business more resilient for the future
13 June 2019
On all farms sheep have to be moved and handled several times during the year, which can compromise performance if managed badly. This manual gives an insight into a range of sheep behaviours and explains how a system can be designed and operated to handle sheep calmly, safely and efficiently
1 March 2024
As the UK sheep industry has become more reliant on pastures grazed only by sheep, dependence on anthelmintics (wormers) has increased. This manual, produced by the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group gives an overview of how to control worms effectively and responsibly.
29 May 2024
There are two main challenges for the lamb sector; the first is to maintain the production of high-quality meat and the second is to ensure sheep farming is financially viable. This manual outlines the factors to consider to achieve these aims at every stage of production, from weaning to selection