With Easter over, processors have lost no time in stamping their authority on the Irish sheep business: factory quotes for ...

Sheep and Wool Day takes place throughout the day and includes food trucks, fleece spinning and weaving demonstrations, kids’ ...

This week's sheep trade has seen price lifts for spring lambs, hoggets and cull ewes as demand heats up for all types of factory-fit sheep.

Farmers say they are concerned about the future viability of their businesses following the closure of a smaller abattoir. Newman's in Farnborough, Hampshire, slaughtered most of the livestock reared ...

Cattle are supposed to be stunned and rendered insensible to pain with a bolt or bullet in the head before they are processed ...

With Easter and its traditional family get-togethers almost upon us, the expectation among sheep farmers that €10/kg for ...

Opposition to factory farming, once associated mostly with animal rights activists ... an operation in which we concentrate the animals and feed them. Unlike cattle or sheep on pasture, they don’t ...

The ICSA has claimed that the beef price grid used to determine prices paid to farmers "is structured solely to serve factory bosses".

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

Noel Thomas Cunningham (64) was yesterday (April 7) sentenced in the Palmerston North District on three charges he pleaded guilty to under the Animal Welfare Act, following a successful prosecution ...

An animal-rescue farm in Caswell County, North Carolina, is now featured on television screens watched by millions. Ziggy’s ...