No more incidences of H5N1 France and Switzerland is really good news. The EU had over 700 cases in wild birds over the winter and spring season 2006. The problem is that we still cannot predict what will happen in 2006/07 because not a lot is known about
Having just returned from a very busy Sheep 2006 at Malvern it seems that the word on everybody's lips was 'Easicare'. There is no doubt that many sheep farmers are looking to streamline the management of their flocks over the course of the next few years
The Wadworth Brewery Shire horses are busy packing their suitcases this week for their well earned 2 weeks of summer sun, at a self-catering destination near Devizes. Heading-off to their regular holiday spot in a field in the village of Poulshot, the
Being both a Yorkshireman, (notoriously tight') and a smallholder, Jeremy Hobson looks at ways of combining the two situations and suggests a few tips. I do not think it is purely my Yorkshire upbringing that brings a glint to my eye and a smile to
Over the past few months Smallholder appears to have increased the number of articles relating to the purchase of properties, smallholding courses, funding of rural enterprises and the like. Obviously, research shows that there are people reading the
I hope you can help, my friends have just moved into a house with aprox 1 to 2 acres of land and have been asked by the local planning dept for there small holding number. How do you register a small holding and what animals can be kept on the land ?
This bird flu threat is a complete and total fabrication. Started by the World Health Organisation in a totally unqualified statement and broadcast, it threw the world into a blind panic. Capitalised on by an unscrupulous press and media catapulting
Every year my knowledge of gardening increases through visiting seed trials and speaking to real experts in their field (no pun intended!) and for this reason I look forward to late Summer which is when most of the Seed Trials take place. The three we
Autumn is an excellent time to evaluate what you have in the poultry pens says Janice Houghton-Wallace The classic musical song 'Summertime - and the living is easy' certainly has a measure of truth about it and this can be applied to poultry as well
Bill and Mary Gwynne of Coalport, near Telford, were thrilled when their youngest grandchild, Katie Raw-Rees (9), won the Pet Lamb Championship at Burwarton Show with her Cade Lamb, Phillipa. And the family put much of their triumph down to the fact
