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Farmers are being urged to vaccinate their ewes against enzootic abortion before tupping to help prevent unnecessary lamb losses.

By Debbie James A Pembrokeshire goat meat farm involved in an on-farm study into drench resistance in goats says the findings of the research will enable more effective parasite dosing in herds, leading to improved daily live weight gains and reducing time to slaughter. Damian and Meg McNamara have historically had a low parasite burden in the Boer cross herd they run at Moat Village Farm, New Moat. Their herd is among four in Wales involved in the European Innovation Programme (EIP) project in Wales. On some of the farms, evidence of worm resistance to both clear and white wormers ...

THE John Gittins Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to the Welsh sheep industry has been won this year by Montgomeryshire farmer Steve Smith. The award, one of the most prestigious prizes in Welsh agriculture, has been won by Mr Smith, of Pen-y-Bryn, Castle Caereinion. Mr Smith was raised in a non-farming family but he always knew from a very young age that he wanted to farm. He got the farming bug and eventually moved to Wales in 1981 to work as a shepherd in Montgomeryshire. He believed that the sheep industry had great opportunity and looked towards the then new breeds that...