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Farm animals

June 2026

  • cattle on a farm

    US confirms three new cases of flesh-eating screwworm in livestock

  • A man looks at a computer screen displaying information about the new world screwworm.

    Second flesh-eating screwworm infection reported in cattle in Texas

  • fly larvae

    Alarm as once-eradicated flesh-eating parasite found in calf in Texas

  • Pigs on a farm

    Antibiotics use in livestock could rise by a third in next 15 years, UN report warns

April 2026

  • Wheat field, dried up and only grown low, through the summer drought

    World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns

  • White park cattle in a field

    Cattle breed whose ancestors lived with Celts added to priority at-risk list

March 2026

  • Saliva testing George.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A saliva test for George the pony, and a rethink on worm control

    Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: Deworming horses is as important as ever, but not at the expense of dung beetles – which are coming out of hibernation now

February 2026

  • Guardian Australia's Joe Hinchliffe visited one of the first commercial camel dairies in Australia

    Meet the Australian farmer planning to get the US hooked on camel milk – video

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  • Paul Martin with a camel

    How an Australian farmer is planning to get US consumers hooked on camel milk

  • Agnes Winter with her Wensleydale sheep breed champion at the 1988 Great Yorkshire Show, pictured with a fellow Wensleydale breeder, John Elliott

    Other lives
    Agnes Winter obituary

  • Mummy Pig and Evie Pig pose on a pink carpet at the entrance to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London

    Peta calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show rolls into Grimsby

December 2025

  • A police car on a road leading into forest.

    Nine boars found dead in Spanish swine fever outbreak

    Hundreds of police, rangers and military personnel deployed to tackle virus threatening pork export industry

November 2025

  • Close-up picture of live turkeys

    Bad season of bird flu in UK hits supply of Christmas turkeys

  • An English longhorn on sand dunes at the Ainsdale and Birkdale Sandhills nature reserve, Merseyside.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The strange sight of cattle on sand dunes

  • Poll Dorset ewe (1)

    Country diary
    Country diary: Lambing in autumn? That’s a local specialty here

  • women hugging each other

    Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches

October 2025

  • Early light on Sarah's farm

    Country diary
    Country diary: The working day begins and ends in darkness once more

  • Pigs in a pen

    Scientists create pigs resistant to classical swine fever

July 2025

  • a worker pours fly larvae onto a tray

    US to breed billions of flies and dump them out of aircraft in bid to fight flesh-eating maggot

    Program mirrors earlier successful mission to fight new world screwworm fly, whose larvae can infest living tissue

May 2025

  • Brown and white cow on a mountain, looking at cable cars, clouds in the background

    Smart shot
    ‘As we explored, we noticed this huge cow’: Jennifer Newitt’s best phone picture

    High above a Swiss mountain village, an American holidaymaker found herself enchanted …
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