Sarah Adcock’s Animal Welfare Lab looks into alternatives to painful farm animal procedures like the tail docking of lambs.

A Powys farmer has admitted causing unnecessary suffering to 80 sheep and failing to provide them with sufficient levels of ...

DEFRA’S consultation on castration and tail docking methods should be engaged with by the sheep industry, so policy makers ...

Sheep farmers risk having future on-farm practices shaped without them unless they engage with Defra’s review of castration and tail docking.

Sheep in a field in Moscow, Idaho. Long tails often cause health and hygiene problems for sheep. To solve this, a research project at Washington State University aims to eliminate the trait that ...

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D’amour Ntirenganya is an ardent Smart Harvest reader from Rwanda. I met him during a recent visit to Netherlands for an agricultural forum and we interacted briefly. As we got acquainted, D’amour ...

Guy Hodnett, of Brook House, Knighton, appeared before Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court this week, where he was ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines, after pleading guilty to two offences ...