Click here for news menu Loading. Comment Leaders of the Scottish livestock industry held a crisis meeting with Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, yesterday to try to put together a compensation package for Scottish farmers facing financial collapse in the wake of the foot-and-mouth crisis. Comment Leaders of the Scottish livestock industry held a crisis meeting with Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, yesterday...

While welcoming a Scottish Government rescue package, he said it still fell short of covering sheep farmers' loses this year. But grouse shooting estates and efforts to encourage future generations to go into farming are among the side effects of the troubles facing Scotland's sheep farmers, according to Allan Young. Many lambs reared on hill farms are sold at auction to other farmers to be "finished" and sold for meat, a large proportion of this is exported. Allan Young, a hill sheep...

Transportation of lambs both to and from the feedlot, as well as getting feed to the feedlot, will also provide additional work for truck drivers and transportation companies. REGION - A lamb feedlot could be the saving grace farmers across the region need following yet another horror season on the land. The partnership could not come at a more appropriate time, with farmers struggling to source and fund feed for stock and Australian Lamb Co being faced with increased export demands. With...

Farmers will be required to transport the lambs to participating collection centres or abattoirs where they will be purchased and taken for slaughter. For most of the past two months the export market has been closed due to As the lambs have not been exported and there is no UK market for them, many potentially face welfare problems with the onset of winter. In Wales some 830,000 light lambs are produced annually, with a significant amount destined for export from August to February....

The fleece is finer and softer than sheep s wool. Noting that other flashy markets such as those for chinchillas or Dutch tulip bulbs were once hot and then collapsed, he said he didn't see any similar downturn as likely for alpacas. The critters also bring thousands of dollars in breeding fees, and their fleece sells for hundreds of dollars as well. With the Gohls' five grown children out of the 6,000-square-foot house on the hill above the barns, alpacas have become his full-time...