Tag: Livestock

A BBC InDepth article asks why sheep are disappearing from our hills – and our dinner plates.

University of Reading study finds that knowledge is a barrier to uptake of agroforestry. Farmers need opportunities to learn from real examples and business support.

The Cross Visits programme from the Organic Advice Network gives European farmers and advisors within the same agricultural sector the chance to share ideas and learn from each other.

A new network from Innovative Farmers will expand on past field labs to offer more opportunities for farmer-led research and knowledge exchange.

Sustain Sheep is a new international research initiative led by SRUC and the Texel Sheep Society, aiming to reduce methane emissions from sheep through selective breeding. The project is exploring how genetic improvement can contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions without compromising performance.

The Organic Research Centre has two vacancies available at their site near Newbury

Use of herbal leys within an integrated farming system could enable farmers to reduce input expenditure and improve soil health, visitors to an Agricology field day at Daylesford Farm in Oxfordshire heard. Abby Kellett reports.

The UK’s Global Food Security programme is funding £4.9 million of interdisciplinary research to increase resilience and sustainability of the UK food system.

On 29th June a group of experts attended a roundtable event co-hosted by the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics and the Food Research Collaboration at City University, and chaired by Professor Tim Lang. 

Meat has been so cheap for so long that it became easy to forget exactly how it is produced. However, various food scandals, including the horse-meat controversy and, most recently, the marketing by Tesco of a range of meats, labelled with fictional farms to convince us it was somehow from a more wholesome source, has made many people think twice about what they are eating.