Plans for a cattle farm on the edge of a north Staffordshire town have been recommended for refusal. Dozens of residents objected to the proposals for three beef rearing units at Westwood Hall ...

The Wiltshire-based Leighfield family are in this week’s What’s in Your Shed hot seat. Oliver Mark poses the questions to ...

Over the past two decades, the average UK herd size has more than doubled, and consultants say more dairy farmers ... life cycle of that cow. When you overstock dry cow sheds and calves, it ...

A struggling dairy farm has become a success after reinventing ... while a barn next door houses 24 turkeys and a large unused cow shed has been let to a local mechanic. The farm is also home ...

The sight of dairy cows eating feed or lounging in a massive shed instead of green pastures might seem off-kilter, but it is becoming more common in Australia. Dairy Australia reports that about ...

His firm's technology automatically detects early signs of lameness in cattle. It is confined to milking sheds, for now, but is already being rolled out on dairy farms, mostly in the US and UK.

The goal of the project, funded by The Finnish Ministry of Agriculture, is to investigate causes and risk factors of on-farm mortality of dairy cows. Results of the study will provide tools to improve ...

The demand for dairy ... “While cattle often exhibit frolicking behaviours that could be interpreted as 'happy' when first turned out to pasture, they also queue to come into the shed when ...

The National Dairy Authority (NDA) has said that it plans to import dairy cattle for its stock farms. The acclimated offspring of these cattle will then be distributed to dairy farmers. The ...