April Ref News Today

At Ballaggan Farm in Torness, Peter Junor and his family, overlooking Loch Ness, tend to 1200 Lanark-type Blackface sheep.

Aberdeenshire contractor Stuart Ramages expertise in silage won a forage award last year.

Luing cattle always been renowned as a hardy, commercial breed with good mothering characteristics which coupled with their strong feet and legs,…

Limousins have always been renowned for their terminal sire attributes, but they also make for an ideal suckler cow breed producing progeny with…

Glendearg, situated in Eskdalemuir and under the stewardship of the Reid family since 1999, has long relied on South Country Cheviot sheep as the…

Running a profitable agricultural business on some of Banffshires most remote hill grounds is a challenge in itself, but with a passion for hill…

Efficiency in sheep farming is determined by productivity and profitability and by switching to composite breeds, SRUCs Barony campus based in…

A high scanning percentage does not necessarily drive a productive sheep farm, but when ewe numbers have increased by a third, concentrate usage has…

Scanning percentages in excess of 200 are pretty standard on many lowland farms – what is much more of a challenge, is ensuring as many as…