The NFU is challenging the increasingly fashionable view that livestock farming is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and warning that using climate change as an argument to discourage people from eating milk and meat could be environmentally counter-productive.
Cornwall Farmers announced the election of the fourth new President for the farmer controlled cooperative at their 87th Annual General Meeting held last week at Princetown, Dartmoor.
Big prizes for show Big prizes for Royal Welsh Garden Festival
Gold, silver and bronze medals and cash prizes ranging from £75 up to £350 each will be on offer to nurseries and plantsmen in the competitive trade stand section at this year's Royal Welsh Garden Festival in May. Last year £5250 was paid out in prize money at the event.
Defra ministers should climb off the fence and follow the lead set by the Welsh Assembly Government in taking a proactive approach to eradicating the menace of Bovine TB.
The UK Bluetongue Vaccination Strategy has been agreed with industry stakeholders using the overriding principle of facilitating the rapid transfer of vaccine into animals as soon as it becomes available.
The JAB campaign for mass vaccination against bluetongue can step up a gear after Intervet announced its vaccine has been licensed for use in the UK. The news comes as Defra published its roll out plan and guidance notes for livestock keepers and vets.
The European Commission's plans to introduce compulsory electronic identification (EID) for sheep could lead to a significant number of farmers leaving the industry, the NFU warns.
In accordance with our legislative obligations under section 14a of the Animal Health Act 1981 Defra is inviting comments on the proposed Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations 2008.
Bluetongue - vaccine now available Livestock keepers are being urged to order vaccine to protect their sheep and cattle against bluetongue virus (BTV8).
Farm visit for West Fife smallholders Members of Forth Valley and West Fife Smallholders Association enjoyed the first of a planned series of farm visits during March.
New home for tired chickens A hotel in Truro, Cornwall, moved by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Chicken Out campaign and publicised in Smallholder, is offering a new lease of life to 24 ex-battery hens.Reader comment (1)
The Wild Bird Monitoring Area and associated disease control restrictions put in place following cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza in wild birds in Dorset has been lifted.
Beware of the birds All farmers, smallholders and other landowners are being reminded that the bird nesting season has begun and it is an offence to damage or destroy nests by hedge cutting or tree felling.
Pig farmer at the helm A Cornish farmer, who breeds pigs near Wadebridge and Liskeard, is preparing to preside over his first Annual General Meeting as the new Chairman of South West-based insurer Cornish Mutual.
The Farm Health Planning initiative, led by producers and vets in partnership with DEFRA, has been running successfully for some time and is already well known by farm assured producers.
