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After a farm work young or old in the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border. Chance to work with Dairy cattle, Beef cattle, finishing cattle, sheep and tractor driving. Working on a 500 acre family farm. Training options available. After a part time worker for ideally 2 days a week. Happy to consider...

After the winter and wet spring we have all had, we received a call today from an rpa inspector saying they wanted to do a whole herd inspection on Tuesday. This after all the cattle have just gone out for the summer in various locations, this could have been carried out at the tb test during...

Hi all, hoping for some advice please. We keep around 100 continental store cattle on the farm, bought in in autumn and over-wintered in barns, turned out in April and sold the following autumn. To try something different we’ve just bought some in-calf cows with calves at foot. One cow has twin...

I must admit, I would assume there would be a thread about this by now. Sorry if I’ve missed it. it seems quite serious and totally incompetent by the water company the day they said the water was safe without having the tests . Last night, the news was saying the contamination came from a...

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Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The threat of bluetongue virus (BTV) was one of the key talking points around the cattle rings during Balmoral Show 2024 this week. According to British Blue Cattle Society secretary, Andy Ryder, Great Britain has lost its disease-free status, where...

Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland The North of Ireland Veterinary Association (NIVA) and the NI Branch of the British Veterinary Association (BVA-NI) have discussed current issues that threaten animal health and welfare in Northern Ireland. Joint NIVA and BVA-NI president, Sharon...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Immediate changes will be made to on-farm slaughter in Wales, the government has said, after recommendations from the Bovine TB Technical Advisory Group (TAG) were accepted. Welsh rural affairs cabinet secretary Huw Irranca Davies accepted the...

Come across this, relatively local to us, guy farms on the outskirts of a large village. Shocking! The video is upsetting to watch. https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/24324907.xl-bully-attack-rhos-farm-shown-s4cs-y-llinell-las/#

Seem to be getting a lot of these this year. They tend to land and scraper fairly quickly. What do others do when this happens? As kids we used be taken up in them and dad was given a bottle every time they came.

I've recently been visiting several local farms volunteering my labour for free on evenings and weekends and so far, every response has been a no. Am I missing something? I would have thought farmers would be happy to have an extra pair of hands to help out when needed, especially for free...

Booked in for our inspection next week: Is there anything new? Anything that inspectors seem to be hot on this time round?

Hot sauce and a muster dog: on the ground at Beef2024, the southern hemisphere’s biggest cattle industry expo Written by Mandy McKeesick from the Guardian Emissions, sustainability and windfarms are front of mind at Rockhampton’s Beef Week celebrations Sign up for the Rural Network email...

Thought I'd ask in the Cropping section. After a few tons of beans. Shaftesbury, Dorset based. So closer the better

We are very fortunate to have been offered a new FBT on a small farm. Because of the size of the holding our main income will come from the non farming aspects of the busines, so we can reduce the level of stock we currently run. The current stock fencing is in poor condition and will need to be...

Power smudging is what we call it in oz, i use a 3.5 pottinger lion hd at work. Fyi for those have pugging/poaching to fix after wet. Last two days was fixi g paddocks with pugging that was up to 500mm deep, basically cow/bull leg length. 1 pass with power harrow depth set at 11, and you can...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland With breaks of sunshine in between cloud, day one of Balmoral Show yesterday (Wednesday, May 16) brought thousands of visitors to the Eikon Exhibition Centre location in Lisburn. Among the guests of honour at the event organised by the Royal Ulster...

I've been considering how best to improve this shed. At the moments it's just two feed rings at either end and I'm thinking about running a feed barrier down the left handside but I was wondering if it's worth having a feed pass or not. The shed is only 22ft wide so how sensible is it to have...

Further funding to tackle endemic diseases Written by The Team By reducing the levels of endemic disease in livestock, we can increase productivity, support businesses and unlock wider benefits too — from reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to slowing antimicrobial resistance (AMR)...