Beef
Scotch beef to be showcased at St Andrew's Day dinner
Scotch Beef PGI is set to take centre table at the annual St Andrew’s Day dinner at the five-star Old...
Beef
Beef
NBA calls for 'bottom-up' approach to beef assurance schemes
The National Beef Association (NBA) Midlands Committee has set the date for a meeting in which it will bring together...
Beef
Aberdeen Angus Society launches new youth training course
The Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society has announced it will launch a new business and leadership course to provide vital training...
Beef
Immigration proposals must consider UK’s high proportion of EU vets
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has warned Government post-Brexit immigration proposals could leave the UK’s meat sector without enough vets...
Beef
New British Limousin Cattle Society president announced
A Northern Ireland Limousin breeder is set to take over the reigns of the UK’s largest beef breed society. Jim...
Beef
3 new members join QMS board
Three new members, including a butcher, a female farmer and a pig marketing boss, have been appointed to the Quality Meat...
Sheep
Focus on reproduction management in Shetland
Ensuring high fertility levels in suckler cows and selection of breeding rams are two of the subjects which will be...
Beef
Store cattle up to £50/head back on 2017 - QMS
As the round of autumn store cattle sales get into full swing, store cattle producers are seeing average prices of...
Beef
Diseased cattle compensation rates announced for October
Compensation rates for cattle infected with Bovine TB, BSE, Brucellosis and Enzootic Bovine Leukosis have been announced for the month...
Beef
'Never a more important time' for unity among Welsh meat stakeholders
Future Welsh Government policy must ensure the continued supply of a critical mass of top-quality PGI Welsh Beef and Lamb,...
Beef
Bluetongue identified in 2 imported cattle
Farmers are being urged to remain vigilant for bluetongue virus following the discovery of the disease in two cattle imported...
Beef
British R3 heifer prices highest in Europe
During the week ending September 9, the average R3 heifer price in the EU was 384.5c/kg – an increase of...
Beef
Whitfield Estate farm walk to talk through calving-ease breeding programme
Farm manager at Mains Rigg Farm Whitfield, Bevis Jordan will open the gates to the estate’s impressive 125-head suckler herd...
Beef
Meeting carcase specification to increase profitability
The potential to increase profitability by meeting processors’ carcase specification requirements will be the focus of the next Borders monitor...
Sheep
Monitor Farm focus: Preparing winter grazing strategies
Preparing winter grazing strategies will be the focus at the next meeting of Nithsdale Monitor Farm, set to take place on...
Beef
Farm walk set to showcase Killerton herd's Limousin cattle
An autumn farm walk is set to take place at Patrick and Sheila Greed’s 700ac, Columbjohn Farm, Exeter, to view...
Government
Measures to fight TB unveiled as new data shows badger cull halves disease
Reductions in new outbreaks of bovine TB have been recorded in Gloucestershire and Somerset following the completion of licensed four-year...
Beef
Quality Meat Scotland appoints new chairman
Borders farmer Kate Rowell has been appointed by Scottish ministers as the new chairman of Quality Meat Scotland (QMS). Mrs....
