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ASDA selects farming scholars to boost UK beef industry
Three ASDA beef suppliers from around the UK are celebrating after winning a place on the supermarket’s inaugural Beef Link scholarship programme…
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The Single Farm Payment is not a charity fund for desk workers
The National Beef Association is appalled at the growing number of plans governments and quangos have for the SP (known to farmers as the Single Farm…
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Some farmers resisting electronic tagging of deer, cattle
The former Federated Farmers leader heading livestock industry and government efforts to force farmers to individually identify cattle and deer says…
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Busy farmers need to vaccinate
Farmers are being told to take the time to vaccinate animals against the bluetongue virus in Cumbria. The county is included in a national bluetongue…
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WAFF seeks to eradicate cattle virus
The Western Australian Farmers Federation is conducting investigations to eradicate bovine viral diarrhoea virus in the state. The federation, Cattle…
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Bluetongue virus cattle escape slaughter order
Three cattle infected with the bluetongue virus will not be slaughtered because the risk of transmission is "negligible". Tests revealed that three…
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Bluetongue is found in seven cows
Bluetongue has been found in six imported cattle in Worcestershire, Defra has confirmed. The animals, found on a premises near Worcester, were bought…
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In defence of cattle
The UK"e;s National Beef Association (NBA) has reacted with disappointment, and a weary lack of surprise, at the news that Dr Pachauri, chairman…
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Promising new tests for BSE
The discovery of elevated protein levels, in the urine of some cows infected with BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, raises the possibility that…
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Flood victims refuse to leave cattle
Spotting a family stranded on the roof of a partly submerged house, two Indian Navy commandos swept in over the muddy floodwaters in a black rubber…
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