Keep the Sheep campaigners heartened by the overwhelming support from people living in Perth say they are eager to show them that farmers are not a “bunch of country hicks”. Hundreds of cars and ...

Hundreds of farmers and truckies are moving through Perth’s major arterial roads as they protest against the Federal Government’s live sheep export ban. Four convoys left sites at Bedfordale ...

A NSW parliamentary inquiry heard fears that sheep prices for Australia's eastern state producers could drop heavily as live export was being phased out.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of sheep farmer Mike Gaine in Co Kerry were on Tuesday using plant machinery to empty a slurry pit at his home near Kenmare for fear his remains could be ...

Police are investigating the alleged theft of around 75 sheep that have disappeared from a Welsh farm. The incident happened sometime between March 7 and March 17 on a farm near Newcastle Emlyn.

LIVESTOCK carriers, exporters and wool growers have called for community backing for a Keep the Sheep rally through Western Australia’s capital city Perth this Friday. WA Livestock and Rural Transport ...

Bird flu has been detected in a single sheep for the first time in England, in an area where the disease had been confirmed in captive birds. The government said while this marked the first time ...

Four alpacas have been killed after being shot in the head in Cambridgeshire. Owner Dawn French also says one ewe was also "massacred by dogs" in a field in East Hatley. A fifth alpaca was shot in ...

The H5N1 bird flu has spilled over to a sheep for the first time, infecting a domesticated ruminant in the United Kingdom much like it did US dairy cows, according to UK officials. The single ...

TWO hill sheep fleeces from the Cumbrian fells, including the iconic Herdwick, were presented to His Majesty The King this week by the Farmer Network, one of the Country's leading farmer support ...

"While this is the first time this virus has been reported in a sheep, it is not the first time influenza of avian origin has been detected in livestock in other countries," it added. "There is no ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first UK H5N1-type bird flu case in sheep has been confirmed in Yorkshire as authorities intensify ...