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Chair of the Ruminant Health and Welfare, Gwyn Jones, talks to Katie Fallon about the future of the livestock industry and the organisations ongoing priorities.

NSA's chief executive Phil Stocker said he was seeing a 'breakdown in traditional sheep farming and grazing practices', adding with holdings becoming unviable and tenants often not having the opportunity to benefit from the schemes that land is being entered to

Australian sheepmeat made up more than half of the global trade in the product in 2023, with lamb and mutton production reaching record highs

That was the message from new livestock board chair and Gloucestershire beef suckler farmer David Barton, who added the ‘unpredictability' of this strain of bluetongue was worrying

Ms Hallos said she was excited about the future of British agriculture, but added: "Let's not kid anybody, it is going to be a rough road, and there is going to be winners and losers like there is in everything in life"

Humberside Police Rural Task Force said the remains of the Lleyn ewe, along with her unborn lambs, had been found in an alleyway

Bizza Walters, a well-known sheep farmer from Warwickshire, looks back on lambing this season

Auctioneers said farmers had been 'delighted' with the prices achieved

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley (March 28)

Deciding to commit to farming full-time has paid off for young farmer Izzi Rainey. Emily Ashworth finds out more