A ’true character’ cow has celebrated its 25 birthday.

A true character cow has celebrated its 25 birthday.

Police in Scotland have launched an investigation into the theft of 75 Scottish Black Face ’South Type’ sheep from a farm near Tomatin, south of Inverness.

Defra’s Pick for Britain campaign, which many businesses said failed to attract the right calibre of workers, has been ditched in favour of a more targeted approach to recruitment.

Ulster Farmers’ Union president Victor Chestnutt has warned against ’bad legislation’ which could wipe out half of Northern Ireland’s livestock farmers to meet a legislative climate change target without any scientific basis.

NBA, AHDB, QMS and HCC have voiced their outrage at Blue Peter’s Green Badge criteria which encourages children aged six to 15 to reduce meat consumption among other measures to become a ’Supersized Climate Hero’.

While the outlook for many of the UK’s rare native breeds has remained broadly unchanged, the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has highlighted a number of ‘priority breeds’ in its latest annual Watchlist.

A worker has died in a heather burning incident.

A young farmer has died in a tragic all-terrain vehicle (ATV) incident. 

Tighter cattle supplies and strong retail demand has seen beef prices soar to ’exceptional levels’ in recent weeks.