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Harvesting the highest quality silage for fattening cattle is the main aim behind the Cruickshank family’s West Mains farm business based at…

Producing quality Scotch Beef to a high standard by utilising home-grown cattle is the name of the game for the Smith family, from Laurencekirk,…

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

Breeding well balanced cows with longevity through genomic testing is the main aim of the Orr family, from Kaemuir – finalists in this year’s…

Eilidh MacPherson and Richard Nixon, who contract farm over 1000 ewes at Carsphairn, Castle Douglas, have just recently invested in Galloway females…

There is no breed better than a Luing for producing an efficient hardy, hill cow to offset the higher feed, labour and building costs involved in…

There’s not much to beat a medium-sized, low-cost cow that will easily produce 10 calves throughout her lifetime and it’s the Beef Shorthorn…

An ability to produce quality home-bred replacement females and easy fleshing bulls is exactly what attracted the Jordon family to the Limousin, but…

Most livestock farmers perceive high inputs lead to increased outputs – however, low input systems can be just as productive and indeed more…

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