THE McGowan family of Incheoch, near Alyth, Perthshire, have been announced as this year’s AgriScot Scottish Sheep Farm of the Year winner. Husband and wife team Neil and Debbie McGowan, in partnership with Neil Judy’s mother, father Finlay and sister Clare manage the 485 hectare farm at the foot ofRead More →
A family farm in Perthshire was named today (Wednesday 21 November) AgriScot Scottish Sheep Farm of the Year 2018. The award is managed by AgriScot and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and sponsored by Thorntons Solicitors. Incheoch, near Alyth, is run by husband and wife team Neil and Debbie McGowan inRead More →
Upper Nyack acquires land for the new village park, the Hester Haring Cason reserve by Mike Hays The stone carriage house is over 100 years old. Bleating sheep surprised strollers from North Broadway to Upper Nyack about 15 years ago as they passed the sloping meadow at 626 N. BroadwayRead More →
A New Zealand farmer is on a mission to bring the ‘cutest sheep of all time’ to the world after successfully raising them in New Zealand. Sally Strathdee and her husband Lindsay fell in love with the Valais Blacknose breed after discovering pictures of the fluffy creatures online. After successfullyRead More →
Click to enlarge Sara tabin Sheep in one of the barns at the Benson Binding Site farm Half a dozen barns on a Benson farm 2,200 sheep – one of Vermont’s largest herds of animals – that are not raised for meat or fleece. The workforce of nearly 50 makesRead More →
Anna Truesdale runs a dairy and sheep farm with her father Mark and brother William in Newcastle, County Down, home to Castletru Holsteins. nna is entering her final year of college and hopes to become an independent consultant in the future, while continuing to work on the family farm. TheRead More →
A forage shortage will be the main driver of increased input spending on Irish sheep farms this year, according to the recent Teagasc Situation and Outlook report from July 2018. The Department of Agriculture reports that feed use increased by 18% in sheep farms during the first quarter of 2018,Read More →
Reading time: 3 minutes Susan de Rosemond had three strikes against her when she decided to become a sheep farmer in the late 1970s. First, she was an immigrant. Second, it was a woman. And the fatal blow? She wanted to be a sheep farmer in beef country. “When IRead More →
This year’s Omagh Show hosted the first competitive courses held in Northern Ireland for Valais Blacknose sheep. The breed has its origins in Switzerland with the first import arriving in this part of the world two years ago. They have been dubbed the cuddest sheep in the world. “But theyRead More →
Dutch spotted lambs from the company’s import 2017. The Dutch Spotted Sheep is the latest breed to arrive in the UK, mainly from its country of origin, the Netherlands. This attractive and remarkably marked sheep with an impressive market carcass has attracted a lot of positive attention since arriving onRead More →
+22 Guests of the TOWRI Sheep Cheeses farm danced to the rhythm of the jazz band, snuggling up to sheep and tasting the local produce served at the Eat Local Week preview event, Jamming with the Lambs. About 80 guests met newborn lambs Uno and Dos at Allenview Farm onRead More →
OPINION: “Honey, I just bought a sheep farm.” That’s what I said when I hung up the phone. I’m joking that I’ll just have to throw this one in the bucket with all of my other midlife seizures, even if it’s starting to wear out a bit I’m told, becauseRead More →
GRANVILLE, NY – Jody Somers, originally from Connecticut, traveled to Italy, via Texas A&M, to learn how to make cheese. He came home with a Tuscan woman and now they run Dancing Ewe Farm, a diverse farm set on 55 acres of rolling hills in upstate New York just stepsRead More →
Heavily in lamb ewes at Oaklands Farm, Church Broughton owned by the Redfern family The large length of 10kW ground-mounted solar panels has a 25-year payout The Redfern family in their fold, from left to right: Sam, Davinia, Danny, Claire and Dan Daniel and Claire Redfern bought the farm inRead More →
Producers believe there is huge demand and insufficient supply, given that Canada only produces half of what it consumes PONOKA, Alberta. – It’s crowded at East Valley Ranch – and it’s noisy. The “baa, baa, baa†collective of over 1,000 sheep and lambs bleating together under one roof is surprisinglyRead More →
March 13, 2018 11:44 (UTC + 04: 00) 4,173 By trend Representatives of the Uzbek agricultural society Umar visited a pasture in Kazakhstan and offered to cross Uzbek Gissar sheep with Kazakh Edilbay sheep, which can be bred in all conditions, Sputnik Uzbekistan reported on March 12. Umar, an UzbekRead More →
. LAS CRUCES – The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces has added a third breed of sheep to their breeding program – a breed created in New Mexico. Three Debouillet sheep – a ram and two ewe lambs – from the RC “Punch” Jones ranchRead More →
RAMOT NAFTALI, Israel (Reuters) – The piercing note of a shofar – a ram’s horn used in Jewish religious ceremonies – cuts through the air in the mountains of Galilee. Here in northern Israel, Shepherdess Jenna Lewinsky herds a flock of Jacob sheep, pictured here, as a religious vocation. WithRead More →
GERALD PIDDOCK Retired farmer Robert Port is looking for someone willing to take over his flock of ryeland sheep. Wanted: Experienced sheep breeder willing to buy and raise a flock of one of the rarest sheep breeds in the country. The herd of 40 ryeland ewes is being offered forRead More →
Only one ram lamb was born on Saturday morning, but in the coming days the Vorac Suffolk herd near Jefferson is expected to increase in numbers. Peter Vorac and his adult daughter Kelly Vorac run the farm, which raises Suffolk sheep as breeders and animals for slaughter. The farm currentlyRead More →
New Zealand has a new breed of sheep, shown last week at the Canterbury A&P Show. Beltex, or Belgian Texel, has been bred for around 18 years in the UK, where it is valued for its particularly heavy hindquarters and high meat yield. The BeltexNZ partnership brings him to NewRead More →
MOORESTOWN – Charlene Carlisle stood in a large barn with huge bales of hay stacked to her right. She picked up a bottle and called two little lambs. “Come get your bottle. ” The two 3 week old black lambs trotted, one first, the other timidly following. The couple eagerlyRead More →
UNITY, Maine – The lambs were only a few days old, but they reared, kicked and suckled their mothers with confidence and only a few wobbles. They didn’t even seem to care about the people who passed by the Unity College barn to watch the school’s newest and cutest residentsRead More →
CAP CHARLES, Virginia – Hog Island sheep once thrived on an island off the east coast of Virginia, but the breed is in critical condition after settlers abandoned the island’s quicksand. Matt and Eden Ertle of Island View Farm in Cape Charles are working to change that. A few milesRead More →
Don Chavez, a rancher near Albuquerque, New Mexico, has a different mission from most sheep ranchers. He doesn’t just want his sheep to be profitable, he wants them to be famous, KOB News reports. When the Spaniard Francisco Vázquez de Coronado made his two-year journey from Mexico to Kansas inRead More →
Low cost, low cost flock operation was the driving force behind Marc Jones’ decision to switch from lambing inside Texel crosses to lambing Lleyn ewes outside. Traditionally Mr Jones, who farms in partnership with his father David and mother Jane at Trefnant Hall Farm on the estate in Powis, Wales,Read More →
Federal researchers are tasked with safeguarding the genetic material of plants and animals on which the country’s food supply depends. Two ranchers from the hills of western Colorado join us in trying to secure the future of the rare Black Welsh Mountain sheep. It’s a sunny morning at Desert Weyr,Read More →
Credit Laura Palmisano / KVNFBlack Welsh Mountain sheep, a rare breed, graze at Desert Weyr, a farm near Paonia, Colo. Federal researchers are tasked with safeguarding the genetic material of plants and animals on which the country’s food supply depends. Two ranchers from the hills of western Colorado join usRead More →
Federal researchers are tasked with safeguarding the genetic material of plants and animals on which the country’s food supply depends. Two ranchers from the hills of western Colorado join us in trying to secure the future of the rare Black Welsh Mountain sheep. Laura Palmisano from KVNF visits the rareRead More →
Lameness is the plague of most sheep farmers. Aside from the time spent treating lame sheep, lameness also comes at a huge cost both in terms of the cost of chemicals / antibiotics to treat the disease and the lack of growth that lame sheep experience. A study conducted byRead More →