New herbal ley mixture for improved soil health
A new herbal mixture is being launched to the market to meet the growing need to improve soil health on farms.
The herbal mixture has been formulated by seed and grain specialist, Cope Seeds, which, in addition to Hybrid and Perennial Ryegrass...
323: Lambing, colostrum management and watery mouth
Written by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
In this podcast Bryony Ennis talks to specialist sheep vet Fiona Lovatt and farmer Clare Wise to get a practical take on best practice advice at lambing time to prevent watery mouth...
I’ve just started inside lambing 🙈 ewes were fluke doses with closantol based drench after scanning at new year. Ewes have been inside a month now give or take. Years ago we would lamb bit later well into March and ewes would get a wormer normally zermex drench before turnout with lambs . This...
As above really I have a small batch of 20 march born lambs, these are the last left so not the best doers
had some awful worm issues from the last autumn, whereas they get really mucky, I worm them they dry up and look better for a month then back where I started
First year I have ever tried a...
That is the stated aim of Patrick Brown, CEO of Impossible Foods which creates meat substitutes using genetically engineered yeasts.
He is quoted in today’s Times as
”If we eliminated animal agriculture in the next 15 years it causes a pause in emissions that lasts 30 year. Biomass recovery...
How long would most of you wait before giving the first fluke drench in the current weather conditions?(N.ire, North of England and Scotland most relevant to me)
Written by Rachel Martin from Agriland
There are just seven weeks to go until the 2021 Sheep Breeders Round Table (SBRT).
The online event takes place this year between Monday and Friday, November 15-19.
The SBRT is an industry initiative, with collaboration from levy-boards AHDB Beef and...
Livestock
What you need to do…
The law requires you to assess and control risks from work activities so far as is reasonably practicable. Here we show how you can improve your livestock handling system and make it safer and more efficient. The key issues are:
What you need to know...
Handling...
Hi All, wormed some lambs 9 days ago. Just in the field now and found a few lambs with worms in their stool like the photos. Used Rycoben. Resistance or dying worms? Thanks
This winter the footpaths across my wheat fields are getting very wide, they look a bit like this:
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/farmer-counts-cost-after-walkers-stray-from-footpath
(picture taken from farmers weekly website, all rights reserved etc by them)
maybe mine are not that wide (yet), but...
Written by William Kellett
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) wishes to bring to the attention of farmers the need to consider the risk of liver fluke infection in cattle and sheep this autumn and winter.
Using a forecasting system based on climate data, staff at the institute have...
Written by Rachel Martin
Agricultural research body AgriSearch has secured stage one funding for four Northern Ireland based projects.
The projects will see AgriSearch work alongside farmers to develop practical solutions to address:
Anthelmintic resistance;
Improving the reproductive...
New to this forum and am a smallholder not a farmer so I hope you won't mind me asking this.
Can anyone tell me how harmful it could have been to breathe in fungicide spray straight after it was sprayed? Walked in it for a minute or so after the sprayer went straight past me at close quarters...
Hi all,
I have a 5 month old coloured Ryeland ram lamb that I have recently bought in and he has started spilling cud. I find him with green liquid spilled down his chin and small patches on the floor every now and again.
The vet has been called out and assessed he was also in very slight...
Written by Agriland Team
Worm control is vital if you are aiming to achieve good lamb growth rates and a profitable sheep enterprise. Heavy worm burden in lambs will lead to a reduction in performance and delay development.
“Ultimately parasites cost growth and these worm infections affect...
Aye-up,
back in the winter I decided we would move all our sheep off the main block (all 14 acres!!) on to new ground near home. That ground hasn’t seen sheep for over a year and even then it was just a short winter graze.
They all had Dectomax when they came here and have had a fluke drench...
Soil health benefits of herbal ley mixtures
The use of herbal leys within an integrated farming system can enable farmers to reduce input expenditure and improve soil health. Herbal leys have become more popular in recent years, although farmers have actually been planting grasses and pasture...
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