FUW hails lifting of US beef export ban
The US market, which has been closed to any EU beef since the BSE crisis of the 1990s, is now open after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it is bringing the US legislation in line with the international science on BSE risk FUW livestock, wool and marts committee chairman Dafydd Roberts welcomed the […]
AIC welcomes FAO report on livestock production and climate change
The Agricultural Industries Confederation, which recently launched the Feed Adviser Register (FAR) welcomes a new global report that highlights how both livestock efficiency can be improved and climate change impact reduced, provided ‘best practice’ on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions is communicated effectively. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has published a report Tackling […]
Applications invited for the HSA 2014 Humane Slaughter Award
Very large numbers of farmed livestock are slaughtered daily around the world to provide food and other resources for human benefit. It is important that slaughter methods are as humane as possible – that they approach as closely as possible the ideal of not causing any fear or pain. Great advances have been made in this […]
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 […]
Stabiliser semen deal
Beef farmers supplying Asda /ABP through its BeefLink scheme will be able to lift productivity by as much as 30% and in-turn boost profitability with use of semen from a leading Stabiliser bull at a significantly reduced price. The news follows the formation of a new marketing agreement with semen supplier Cogent and the Stabiliser […]
Preseli Pembrokeshire MP hears about farming challenges
Wyn and Glenda Jones, of Pantyderi and Trefach farms at Blaenffos, together with their son Eurig and Wyn’s mother Janet Jones rear beef and sheep plus arable acreage for home consumption on both holdings which run to 1,000 acres in total. Seven hundred acres are permanent pasture, 100 acres are used for short term grass […]
Misplaced “mega farm” fears threatening British livestock production
It is particularly concerned that even planning applications for traditional part-time pig units are now meeting with opposition. Britain already imports around 60 percent of its pork and pork products — usually from less welfare-friendly farms — and this figure is set to rise unless farmers are encouraged to invest in new more efficient and […]
DEFRA to meet the cost of removing sheep killed in snow
This is the latest move in a programme of support to help farmers affected by recent snow. Defra has already permitted farmers to bury or burn livestock onsite if snow makes it difficult to get them to a collection vehicle, and has relaxed rules on driver hours to allow extra time for essential deliveries of […]
CLA calls for extension to derogation for burying livestock
The Association has written to Farming Minister David Heath saying it was particularly important for farmers in the Uplands to be given extra time to bury their fallen stock after recent bad weather, and reported that CLA members in Cumbria alone have lost up to half of their breeding stock. CLA President Harry Cotterell said: […]
