The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) has launched its "Report on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs". The report considers the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs and reiterates
The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) has launched its "Report on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs". The report considers the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs and reiterates
A delegation representing sheep farmers, livestock auctioneers and meat processors have met Secretary of State Hilary Benn and reinforced the fact that Electronic Identification and individual movement recording of sheep will drive farmers out of the
The Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today launched a public consultation on the implementation of new European laws concerning the marketing of meat from bovine animals aged 12 months or less. In the UK, meat from
The Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today launched a public consultation on the implementation of new European laws concerning the marketing of meat from bovine animals aged 12 months or less. In the UK, meat from
COMPARED with the vehicles that tow them, livestock trailers invariably get a pretty raw deal when it comes to servicing, maintenance and generally being looked after. They get hitched up, do their job, may get swept out, and then it's back to
I GREW up about two miles from the Grand Union Canal and spent quite a bit of my childhood watching the narrowboats navigating their way through the locks. Recently I returned to my favourite spot to find that it is still more or less the same,
LORD Rooker, Minister for Sustainable Food and Farming and Animal Health, has stated that, "Honey bees are facing serious threats from a growing number of pests and diseases. It is vital that we do all we can to respond effectively to these threats
PHILIP Ghazala is a busy man. As well as being the business brains behind the Verm-X health care range, he is also a TV presenter, host and event commentator. In the run up to a county show, Philip keeps himself up to date with which riders and
Play Station' for goats I HAVE English dairy goats and they love their "Play Station", made out of old wooden pallets and a couple of washed-up-on-the-beach plastic bouys, which are threaded through an iron bar to make it mobile. It started out as a
I HAVE a property with about five acres of land. How do I go about registering a smallholding, and who with? What advantages are there for having my land registered as a smallholding? The land is in a designated green belt area so does this cause
I AM officially a different person this month from the last time I wrote. This month I am a person who can handle a swarm of bees! Well, I had to phone a friend in the form of my beekeeper mentor, the long suffering Chris but I did it - with some help
