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Answer for the clue "Mostly useless about missing staff turning up in city ", 8 letters:
neatherd

Word definitions for neatherd in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neatherd \Neat"herd`\, n. A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. --Dryden.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A cowherd; one who looks after bulls, cows or oxen.

Usage examples of neatherd.

If it is only scarlatina he will be cured by means of herbs and simples and turned into a useful member of society as a husbandman, weaver, smith, neatherd, goatherd, shepherd, bootlegger or judge.

When they saw our neatherds, riders on horseback, women cooking over wood fires, they swallowed easily enough an explanation that we English preferred as much open-air simplicity of life as possible.