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31/01/05
The National Beef Association has joined with dairy farmers, academic institutes,
pharmaceutical companies, and vets to launch an industry driven attack against
Johnes' disease.
29/01/05
In the absence of Beef
Special Premium, English beef producers must consider finishing
their steers faster at a younger age to maximise returns while
minimising costs, advises the English Beef and Lamb Executive
(EBLEX) following the most extensive national beef carcase
study ever undertaken.
29/01/05
English beef and dairy herds will need to be prepared for their
first taste of cohort culling from next month as part of the
planned Over Thirty Month rule change allowing animals born
after July 1996 to enter the food chain, warns the English
Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX).
28/01/05
UK
producers were this week presented with a solution to one of
the biggest challenges facing UK dairy farmers today - how
to achieve optimum health and fertility traits and optimum
yield on a sustainable and long-term basis.
28/01/05
Almost 300 delegates, including farmers and other representatives
of the beef industry, attended a one-day conference at Askham
Bryan College, near York, on Thursday (Jan 27) looking at
beef production under the new Single Farm Payment Scheme.
27/01/05
The CLA has greeted the
publication of the Countryside Agency vision "the Countryside in and around Town" with
surprise.
27/01/05
Plant
breeding company Nickerson have decided to launch their new
winter wheat variety Alchemy a year early, with limited supplies
available through all distributors for sowing this autumn.
25/01/05
With the deadline to meet the latest Voluntary Initiative
(VI) targets approaching, NFUS is reminding its arable members
to produce or update their Crop Protection Management Plans,
register with the National Register of Sprayer Operators
(NRoSO) and ensure their sprayers have been tested in the
last 12 months.
24/01/05
The National Beef Association has formed a partnership
with the Roslin Institute in Scotland and five cattle breeds
to use new genetic tests to identify bulls that will produce
calves with tender beef and more marbling.
25/01/05
The annual culling tally for
TB infected animals in Great Britain reads: Cattle: 23,000
- Badgers outside control trial areas: Nil, even though thousands
of badgers are themselves dying horribly from the disease,
the National Beef Association reported today.
24/01/05
Finishers in England who are giving up their slaughter cattle
for less money than those on offer in the Republic of Ireland
(ROI) are being urged by the National Beef Association to stiffen
their sinews and not let their animals be discounted so harshly.
24/01/05
RABDF
is urging all dairy producers to include from now on the
value of family labour in their farm accounts in order to
calculate and standardize the true cost of milk production.
A detailed study conducted by the Association concluded that
family labour costs 3.81p per litre.
24/01/05
Defra’s recently
introduced dairy reform has been brought in both unfairly
and illegally with regard to the effect that it will have
on English dairy farmers, according to a leading Euro barrister’s
Opinion.
24/01/05
Results just published in
NMR’s Annual Production
Report for the year ending September 2004 show Andrew and
Sue Sanders’ Holstein herd in top place for the second
year running
23/01/05
Exciting
new plans estimated at costing £10 million are
aimed at putting the Great Yorkshire Showground at the heart of
agriculture in the North of England and boosting the region’s
economy have been unveiled by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.
20/01/05
As people in the Upper North West of England prepare for the implementation
of open access in May, the CLA has expressed concerns about perceptions
of rights allowed under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
Despite much publicity, the CLA says that a number of issues are
causing confusion.
 18/01/05
The habitat regeneration of rare local birds such as the
black grouse and curlew is set to accelerate when the numbers
of sheep grazing on West Allenheads and Killhope Moors are
reduced.
18/01/05
NFU Scotland has written to all the major supermarkets,
milk processors and co-operatives as pressure mounts for
recognition of the increased costs dairy farmers have faced
over the last two years.
18/01/05
A drive to encourage candidates of all parties to take food
security seriously in the run up to the next election is
being mounted by the Commercial Farmers Group, a think tank
of farmers, academics, and agricultural business operators. |
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Plans are well advanced
for the UK's national beef event, Beef Expo 2005, to be held
at Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, on Wednesday, June 8. |
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New
Plans for Great Yorkshire Showground
