Milk production figures released for June 2013
The United Kingdom wholesale milk deliveries totalled 1,173 million litres in June, the third month of the milk year. The cumulative total for the year is now 3,518.9 million litres. The wholesale delivery figures have not been adjusted for butterfat content and all figures are provisional. RPA relies on individual purchasers to provide the data, […]
Strategy for England to become bTB free within 25 years
The strategy sets out action in areas such as disease surveillance, pre- and post-movement cattle testing, removal of cattle exposed to bTB, tracing the potential source of infection and wildlife controls including culling and vaccination trials. It also focuses on the development of new techniques such as badger and cattle vaccines and new diagnostic tests […]
Meat from TB infected cattle – government TB management system failing ‘from farm to fork’ says wildlife charity
Meat from more than 20,000 cattle per year infected with bovine TB (bTB) has been allowed into the food chain by the government, posing an unnecessary risk to human health, according to a report in the Sunday Times yesterday. Acting on information given to a journalist by Care for the Wild, the newspaper has revealed […]
Measuring livestock greenhouse gas emissions
Laser Methane Detectors (LMD) could provide a quick but reliable method of estimating of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from livestock an SRUC researcher told a conference this week. Dr Mizeck Chagunda presented his paper ‘Opportunities and challenges in the use of the Laser Methane Detector to monitor enteric methane emissions from ruminants’ at the Greenhouse […]
Recommendations made for the UK dairy industry to stay competitive into the future
The event focused the proposals, outlined in three strategy documents, on the key issues of: Research and Development, Knowledge Exchange, and Animal Health and Welfare. The three strategy papers were presented at the seminar held at Porthcullis House, Westminster in London, with invited guests from throughout the dairy sector, and hosted by MP Rory Stewart. […]
Stacey Solomon latest to sign up to ‘make mine Milk’ campaign
Singer and TV presenter Stacey Solomon has been unveiled as the latest celebrity to support the ‘make mine Milk’ campaign and the charity BeatBullying. She will be working with the two organisations on a competition that teaches children to celebrate diversity and how to make milk a fun part of their diet. The initiative is […]
EDA considers UK front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme as inadequate and misleading
This system combines colourcoding with percentage reference intakes of the mandatory nutrients required by the Food Information to consumers Regulation (FIR). EDA believes this national scheme is inadequate, because it is in contrast with the EU’s aim to harmonize food information to consumers. Its use of color coding is misleading because it doesn’t recognize the nutritional contribution of whole […]
Afimilk users named Top Herd Managers for Ontario Canada
Albadon Farms Ltd was rated first and Summitholm Holsteins second in a monitoring process that serves as a barometer of overall herd performance. To assess performance, six management areas are examined: milk value, udder health, age at first calving, calving interval, longevity and herd efficiency. “Our Afimilk system is a major tool in achieving a […]
Vets and SQPs: Help ‘Stamp Out Scab’
Vets and SQPs can attend a single training session, being held through to 18th July at sixteen locations across England. Each session provides the latest advice on control and how to help clients control scab effectively. Clinical signs and practical diagnosis are covered, as are treatments, legislation, quarantine and biosecurity, and a session on other […]
