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UK - Farm unions socked at potential impact of EID
A significant percentage of the nation’s sheep flock could disappear if EU rules to electronically identify and individually record sheep are…
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Exhibition of Animal and Landscape Paintings
"On To Pastures New" An Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by Mike Jory at The University of Exeter IAIS Gallery Stocker Road University of Exeter…
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BLUETONGUE VACCINATION – jab and go!
Sheep, beef and dairy farmers across the East Midlands need to vaccinate their sheep and cattle against Bluetongue (BTV8) again in 2009, before…
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Increase in dog attacks sparks plea
Be responsible near livestock this spring – that’s the plea from a South West insurer on behalf of the region’s farming community, following a sharp…
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Shearing Training Will Ensure Long Term Skills For Uk Sheep Farming
With snow on the ground and the first lambs already born, it may seem like a long time before sheep need to be without their fleeces, but Otley…
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Scotland - Stolen Sheep
A farmer is appealing for information after 13 of his sheep were mysteriously stolen. The Hornless Mule Crossbred sheep were taken from the lands of…
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Careful optimism for the future of red meat
"I am carefully optimistic about the future for the Welsh lamb industry," Hybu Cig Cymru’s Marketing Manager, Bill Joyce, told members of NFU Cymru’s…
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Lamb carcass splitting situation to be addressed at cross-industry meeting
NFU members are to meet with representatives from the Food Standards Agency, Defra’s TSE division and processors to discuss the financial and…
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Free ORF information pack available from vets
Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has produced a free orf vaccination starter pack containing practical advice to help sheep farmers control the…
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Electronic tagging proposals must be overturned
The proposed introduction of compulsory electronic identification (EID) and individual recording of sheep will bring additional costs but no benefits…
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