Know How / Sheep

Whether you run a sheep flock that numbers in the dozens or the thousands, keeping your rams, ewes and lambs healthy and productive is the key to achieving maximum production.

Regardless of your sheep breed, location or system, these pages give you the important health, welfare, nutrition and genetic advice to help make your flock profitable and sustainable.

Key focus areas:

  • Breeding to suit your system
  • Grassland management and nutrition
  • Improving flock health
  • Finishing lambs to suit market requirements
  • Reducing your cost of production

Latest Know How

SHEEP EVENT

What to see at the Sheep Event 2022

After an unplanned four-year break due to Covid, the biennial National Sheep Association (NSA) Sheep Event is back with a bang. The one-day event at Three Counties Showground on 27…

SHEEP

How a resilient sheep dairy farm overcame multiple setbacks

Building a resilient farm system, along with strategies for improving mental health and resilience, have helped a Cumbrian business overcome multiple hurdles. Faced with a whirlwind of challenges, Cumbrian farmers…

GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT

How grazing change can help soil health and resilience

Farming using regenerative principles is helping the Cowcher family reduce costs and build resilience on their organic beef and sheep farm. Intensive rotational grazing over several years had produced positive…

SHEEP

£40 a lamb profit forecast from arable farm's spin-off

Bringing sheep onto a Hertfordshire farm to graze multispecies leys and cover crops has helped improve soils and control blackgrass on the arable land, while becoming a profitable livestock enterprise…

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