Whatever the connection with wood or the woodland environment, people are invited to attend the Woodland Forum Day on Saturday, April 5 at Neroche Hall, Nr Bickenhall and then on to nearby Wych Lodge.
Seminars to help farmers, smnallholders and livestock keepers understand and contribute to the new proposals for responsibility and cost sharing of animal disease outbreaks is are being held across the country beginning this week.
The Animal Health Office in Taunton has issued a letter this week to poultry breeders in the south west following the outbreak of avian flu H5N1 confirmed in a mute swan from Abbotsbury on January 10.
Defra's continued support for Catchment Sensitive Farming for another three years and its plans for water companies to work directly with farmers to tackle pollution issues are important for the industry, the NFU said.
Keep feeding the birds over winter: that's the message from research by a University of Exeter scientist from the Tremough Campus, Penryn. Published in the prestigious Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the study shows for the first time that the extra food we provide garden birds in winter makes for a more successful breeding season in the spring.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) today, Friday, announced a six per cent increase on Hill Farm Allowance (HFA) payment rates compared to 2007. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will start making the 2008 payments this month.
NFU Deputy President Meurig Raymond has again rejected Government plans to charge farmers for animal disease control when he spoke at a conference in London today.
The lifting of the export ban to the USA is great news for the British pig industry says the British Pig Executive (BPEX)
The ban was imposed because of the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease and not only has the US now lifted it for the whole country except Surrey, but the decision has also been backdated to August last year.
Seminars to help farmers and livestock keepers understand and contribute to the new proposals for responsibility and cost sharing of animal disease outbreaks is are being held across the country.
Defra has today, Friday, confirmed that another two dead wild mute swans, collected on January 28 as part of wild bird surveillance in the same area in Dorset have tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza.
Farmers and smallholders are being urged to keep kicking up a stink about largely discredited EU regulations, likely to be imposed upon them over even wider swathes of the South West, which will ban them from muck spreading for nearly half the year and will mean an average spend of around £40,000 per farm to provide storage for the accumulated slurry.
Charles Bourns has been re-elected chairman of the NFU's national poultry board.
Eggs that lead to love A west country poultry breeder and a celebrated chef and food writer are hoping to put a sparkle in the eyes of many a couple for Valentine's day this year
The chef is Mark Hix, who has created an exclusive scrambled duck egg and keta salmon caviar dish to set the mood and tantalise the taste-buds and using eggs from a breeder is part of the Clarence Court company with a holding at Scorrier, in Cornwall.
Wiltshire College's post-16 agriculture, horticulture and animal care vocational courses are providing students with the relevant skills to meet industry needs according to Ofsted's post-16 good practice survey reports.
Farmers and growers are unlikely to see any immediate change in the management of flood risk in rural areas despite the recommendations put forward in the Pitt report, the NFU has warned.
