Bruce Pheasant has been raising sheep and lambs since 1985 -- part of a family tradition that goes back to his grandfather s sheep operation in 1890. It is an article of faith within the sheep industry that compound 1080 (sodium monoflouroacetate), a canid-selective poison, was the most effective and economical weapon against coyotes, until the use of poisonous baits for predator control was banned in 1972. This is what I love to do, Pheasant said, referring to the positive side of raising...

And there was one significant difference this year - sheep were on show for the first time since the foot and mouth outbreak hit the British countryside in 2001. Defra restrictions had prevented sheep from being shown at the fair, but this year there were three on show thanks to Farms2Ewe a Compton-based mobile farm company. On a gloriously sunny day, crowds flocked to the village, watching the dog show in the main ring and checking out some of the many activities available. Adults and...

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Just weeks ago viewers saw the 40-year-old chef breeding a French ram with a Welsh ewe to produce the cross-breed lambs which were due to be killed at the end of the series. But the chef's delight turned to horror when one of the lambs named Charlotte Church, after the Welsh singer was savaged to death just yards from the family home by what is believed to be a wild cat. But when a vet was called to analyse the carcass, he told Ramsay and the film crew he suspected the lamb had been killed...

One Rhode Island Red, a hen particularly ample of breast and fleet of claw, bounded toward him the other morning as he stood in the vineyard at Ceago Del Lago, the biodynamic farm and wine center he built on the shore of California's Clear Lake, about two hours north of Sacramento and four hours west of Reno in Lake County. One Rhode Island Red, a hen particularly ample of breast and fleet of claw, bounded toward him the other morning as he stood in the vineyard at Ceago Del Lago, the...