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International research into liver fluke will aid smallholders world wide

8:30am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Queen’s University Belfast is spearheading an £1 million international research effort to combat liver fluke – a parasite which causes disease in livestock, resulting in billions of pounds in losses every year to farmers around the world.

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High wool prices are sustainable says Sussex sheep farmer

2:03pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

The vigorous demand for wool, coupled with limited supply, which has sent prices to 113p a kilo in recent weeks, has led to the cancellation of 2 of the last 6 sales of the selling year at the British Wool Marketing Board’s Headquarters at Bradford.

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Livestock owners urged to keep out Blue Tongue

10:57am Monday 8th March 2010

Vigilance and vaccination remains the key to keeping British livestock free from Bluetongue. This is the message from the national JAB campaign group reminding farmers to protect their animals against disease in 2010.

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Snowy Winter Could Offer Silver Lining to livestock owners say Janssen Animal Health

8:00am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

The icy, snowy winter weather that persisted through into 2010 might have seemed dire at the time, particularly for those famers and smallholders that struggled to get out to feed livestock but Janssen Animal Health say this could be one cloud that really has a silver lining.

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Pig conference proving popular

8:10am Monday 1st March 2010

Producers are flocking to register for ‘Back to the future’, the second national BPEX Knowledge Transfer conference. There are just weeks until the event on Tuesday 16th March 2010, to be held at the East of England Showground, Peterborough.

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News on labelling of pig products

5:20pm Sunday 28th February 2010

There is light at the end of the tunnel for confused consumers as a new labelling code of practice is introduced for the country of origin for pork and pork products.

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Livestock to be caught on CCTV in Freedom Food Scheme

1:12pm Friday 26th February 2010

The RSPCA announced today it is calling for all abattoirs to have CCTV installed, as part of its ongoing work to improve the welfare of farm animals at all stages of their lives.

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High welfare in livestock rearing important to shoppers

6:24pm Sunday 21st February 2010

Freedom Food announces record number of animals reared to RSPCA standards British shoppers are standing firm by animal welfare in 2010 as Freedom Food today reported a record breaking 532 million farm animals are being reared under its scheme to the RSPCA’s higher welfare standards. This is a 46 per cent increase since 2008.

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Vaccinate livestock early and remain vigilant for Bluetongue warns Vet

5:00pm Saturday 20th February 2010

While Bluetongue remains a real threat to the livestock industry, it is vitally important that all livestock farmers remain vigilant for signs of the disease and take steps to vaccinate their livestock, the Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales, Dr. Christianne Glossop said this week. Following outbreaks in South East and South West England during 2008, Britain remains in a BTV8 Protection Zone, which allows animals to move from other BTV8 zones in Continental Europe. If such animals test positive for BTV8 in Wales they may be killed, depending on the circumstances, and no compensation would be paid.

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Smallholder in producer group for pig bio-security

12:01pm Friday 19th February 2010

Yorkshire pig producers are proposing new ways to improve pig unit biosecurity. Two producer cluster groups in the Yorkshire and Humberside Health (YHH) programme are now acting as ‘pilot’ clusters. They will provide details to Yorkshire Forward on how funds could be used collaboratively on farms to benefit pig health as part of the funding bid for stage two of the programme.

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