D’amour Ntirenganya is an ardent Smart Harvest reader from Rwanda. I met him during a recent visit to Netherlands for an agricultural forum and we interacted briefly. As we got acquainted, D’amour ...

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Sheep farmers have less than a week to respond to Defra’s consultation on tail docking and castration – proposals that could reshape flock management across the country. The UK-wide consultation, ...

Despite the first WSF rule set in 2001 mandating tails at least three tail bones in length, some breeders continued to cut them short. In 2003, about 40 lambs were culled from market competition at ...

Young bucks are castrated and docked in preparation for the coming summer. In this clip from "Sweetgrass," bucks are castrated, their tails are cut (docked), and the ends of their ears are cut to ...