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EnvironmentAfter a summer of drought and wildfires left slurry stores fuller than usual, the Welsh Government will let farmers spread until 15 November and pay 80% of SFS and BPS claims in advance.
WEDA's PigTail, a silver DLG Innovation Award winner at EuroTier 2026, photographs each pig's tail as it passes and alerts farmers to new injuries.
LivestockFifteen vet practices produce standardised antimicrobial use reports for cattle and sheep clients, and early results suggest use is lower than expected.
LivestockBritish Wool's first four sales of the season averaged £1.70/kg, and core wool types could pay farmers more than £1/kg for the 2026 clip, enough to cover shearing costs.
LivestockJuly population data show Scottish prime cattle aged 12 to 30 months up 1.8% on a year earlier, which Quality Meat Scotland calls the most stable supply position in several years.
LivestockThe Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society's new Dairy Beef Index combines calving, growth and carcass traits into a profit-per-calf figure for dairy farmers choosing Angus bulls.
LivestockAndrew Connon told the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers conference that independent pig producers are in 'financial and mental hell', that disease is the biggest threat after profitability, and that strong beef and sheep prices are not translating into margin.
LivestockMossgiel Organic Dairy in Ayrshire had three calls in ten minutes from buyers south of the border and turned down a further 40,000 litres; AHDB puts UK daily collections 3.7 percent below last year.
CropsECIU analysis puts British yields about 11 percent below the five-year average and Belgium's down 21 percent; processors in Britain are paying more than £300 a tonne against £180 at the start of the year.
With many dairy herds already feeding winter forage after the dry summer, Massey Harpers Feeds' Imogen Ward says a new ley can give 15.5 t of dry matter a hectare against 7 t from a tired sward, each extra tonne worth about 2,000 litres of milk or 234 kg of beef or lamb.
Basic Payment Scheme and Greening money has reached most Scottish farmers and crofters since the window opened on 1 September, the agriculture minister says; recipients of the £21.4 million Future Farming Investment Scheme must file their evidence by 30 September to be paid.
ScotEID records show 35,806 cattle, 94,132 sheep and 147 goats fully vaccinated across 1,353 holdings, with far more animals part-way through a course; September uptake is strongest in the south, Roxburgh, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Ayr, where a Restricted Zone remains in force.
The FAO 160 variety, a first choice on the Maize Descriptive List, combines rapid maturity with 38.4% dry matter, 57.2% cell-wall digestibility and 36.3% starch, giving livestock farmers who need an early harvest a high-energy forage option.
