Country-Wide June/July 2023

Pollock's view.

Tom Ward looks at the advantages and disadvantages of composite sheep.

Jane Smith’s pleased there’s been a good autumn on her farm, but worries this year’s election might be a horror show.

A flatland area of Cumbrian countryside in England’s Lake District has come on the market.

Companies and organisations that have been so focused on conforming to identity politics are now waking up to economic reality. They are focusing on costs and the true customer.

Billboards in the Republic of Ireland are highlighting a big boxing match coming to town that is set to be quite controversial for the country’s livestock industry.

Tim and Binds White have knocked over a big prize by winning this year’s Keinzley Ag Wairarapa Sheep & Beef Farm Business of the Year Award.

Dr Dennis Wesselbaum outlines how inflation is measured, its value, its flaws and ideas for better accuracy.

Hill country farmers need to remember their main job is to cost effectively turn grass into saleable beef.

The OIA to MPI is back and it lacks basic information on the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme. Dr Nicola Dennis explores the OIA process and the unanswered questions.