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Livestock
25 May 2022
A project to identify how sheep breeds are evolving to better cope with the challenges of climate change has been carried out as part of the joint AHDB and BBSRC Initiative: Enabling the agricultural transition to net-zero.
28 February 2025
The Animal Health and Welfare Pathway is a long-term, project partnership, co-designed by government and industry, across cattle, sheep, pig and poultry sectors to support continual improvement in health and welfare.
19 May 2022
Cheshire beef farmer, Ian Norbury, had a target of earning a £30,000 per year wage when he joined the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB) Strategic Farm programme in 2017. Having received support and advice from a range of industry consultants, Ian has made a number of changes to his business to get him closer to his goal.
18 May 2022
Ruminant News spring/summer 2022 - with the recent rise in the cost of living and energy bills, this issue is very much focused on reducing fixed costs on farm. One farmer talks about reducing labour and medicine costs through using Targeted Selective Treatment when it comes to their worm control within his flock, whilst a beef suckler farmer talks about how he has reduced fertiliser use and reduced feed costs by optimising his grazing and has increased his outputs by doubling his herd size. The magazine also contains the fantastic results in changing consumer buying habits following the We Eat Balanced campaign and there are some dates for your diary on the back too.
11 May 2022
Dairy Roadmap announce an extension to their target for farmers to have completed a carbon audit.
11 May 2022
Join us to learn about the key findings from a recent AHDB-funded PhD that investigated which key performance indicators can have the biggest impact on sheep farms.
11 May 2022
Matt Blyth and Challenge Sheep project farmer, Ian Wilson, looking at how the use of electronic identification (EID) can aid decision making on farm to improve performance.
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11 May 2022
Promoting ewe longevity has been a key focus for AHDB’s Challenge Sheep project, which aims to further understand influences on ewe lifetime performance and best practice for managing replacement ewes.
10 May 2022
RamCompare’s year six results demonstrate how rams with key breeding traits can optimise flock profitability.
18 April 2022
Read about some of the ways we're helping farmers to keep improving pig health and welfare
13 April 2022
We spoke to AHDB's Head of Dairy Development, Nic Parsons about how the Dairy Roadmap is helping farmers and industry strive for Net Zero
26 May 2022
Find out about the moving and handling training and what it means for you, as well as how you can keep track of your training via PigPro – your online training record.