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Focusing on key areas helps to ensure youngstock maximise their full potential. Ellie Layton finds out more.

Supplied by a range of manufacturers from both the UK and abroad, the range of mobile handling systems has grown rapidly, helping to make sheep farmers’ day-to-day tasks easier. Ellie Layton looks at some recent changes and updates available.

In the last few years, studies suggest that maedi visna (MV) is on the increase in Britain. Ellie Layton looks at how flocks can be protected.

A Holstein cow has given birth to triplets, defying 1 in 100,000 odds.

Livestock farmers have expressed concerns about delays in cattle passports being received on farm, and are calling for British Cattle Movement Service to have an online option to help speed up the process.

Over the past 10 years, the dairy business at Sansaw Estate has gone from a greenfield site to a successful large-scale milking herd. Ellie Layton visited to find out more about some of the more recent system changes.

After a career in TV production, Angharad Edwards now works with her partner Roger James on his family’s farm, where as a couple they have strengthened the future of the business through diversification. Ellie Layton reports.

A tight calving block can lead to benefits in terms of management and also increases in production. Ellie Layton looks at what farmers should consider before moving to block calving and how to ensure the block is then kept tight.

Emyr Wigley, a Welsh farmer who has been raising money in memory of his wife, Evelyn, after she passed away from ovarian cancer, has been involved in an accident.

After losing his wife, Emyr Wigley has since found himself devoted to raising money for two vital charities. Ellie Layton finds out more.