AFU’s with grazing
The National Beef Association welcomes the decision made last week by the TB Eradication Advisory Group to advise the DEFRA Secretary of State Owen Paterson to continue with Approved Finishing Units with grazing. This proposal by DEFRA vets to abolish AFU,s with grazing was placed before the farming industry in early January and came hard […]
What’s their beef?
The beef industry has been embarrassed by disclosures linked to the adulteration of processed products with cheaper meat – and these took place because multiple retailers continue to be addicted to dangerously heavy discounting and have still to face up to the dangers they create if beef continues to be routinely undervalued and undersold. “Beef […]
Dannii Minogue to star in a2 Milk adverts
Following on from her involvement in the PR launch of a2 Milk in the UK last year, Australian television personality, fashion designer, author and singer Dannii Minogue has now announced that she will be continuing her endorsement of the brand by starring in a major TV advertising campaign, launching at the end of this month […]
NBA urges all purchasers to look more closely at the bull he is going to purchase
Bill Harper of the NBA TB Committee says “a balanced approach to bull purchasing is required when more counties have been included in annual testing areas as the new county system replaces parish definitions”. Purchasers and vendors should be prepared to have an open discussion regarding the sellers farms TB situation, the key questions that […]
Liver Fluke increase in sheep
There has been a tenfold increase in acute liver fluke cases in sheep in the last quarter of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, according to AHVLA figures reported in the latest NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service) Parasite Forecast. It says that the very wet conditions last summer will have resulted in […]
Evidence secures big savings for pig industry
The NPA and FEC have been working closely with the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to agree a 22.7 per cent energy saving target which will run from next year until 2023. Pig farmers who meet this target will then be able to claim a discount on CCL of 90 per cent […]
ACMC seals large order from Georgia
ACMC has sent the foundation stock for a new, 1200-sow unit set up by a private company, Kalanda Ltd, near Tbilisi, to meet a hugely under-supplied market for pork and pigmeat products. The brand new unit involved an investment of over six million euros. This one farm will have over 10 per cent of the […]
Electronic cattle reporting hits record high
Cattle keepers have always been on the vanguard of using RPA’s electronic services and the trend to choose these methods over traditional paper-based reporting is continuing. Farmers also favoured RPA’s British Cattle Movement Service’s online system – CTS Online – and the CTS self-service phone line, to report cattle births and deaths. There are also […]
Lambing problems highlight the need for Schmallenberg vaccine
The call comes as many farms with early lambing flocks across the country have experienced higher than normal losses with still births and deformities ranging from fused limbs to twisted necks. The disease has spread across England and Wales to the Scottish border region and has now been confirmed on more than 1,000 UK farms. […]
