We are urgently developing research requirements with other European laboratories to make sure we understand and the disease (Schmallenberg) better.Agriculture in the national news – November 9
A DAILY look at how agriculture has hit the headlines across the country (Monday, November 9).
German pork sold as ‘Lincolnshire sausages’ in new labelling row
Walls, a company which boasts its sausages have been ‘savoured’ by British households for more than 200 years, has admitted now sourcing at least half its meat from intensive pig farms on the Continent. It neglects to mention the fact on packs including Lincolnshire and Cumberland sausages.
The disclosure follows inquiries by The Sunday Telegraph which is campaigning for clear labelling on the food we eat. Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket, has also admitted to The Sunday Telegraph that the meat in its ‘standard’ Lincolnshire and Cumberland sausage range is sourced from all over Europe and could come from as far as Poland more than 1,000 miles away.
The Telegraph
Government attacked over GM crops
An agricultural consultant yesterday criticised the hypocrisy of government over its policy on GM crops and its ongoing failure to adhere to science.
Aberdeen and Northern Marts’ award winner Gerald Banks accused civil servants of ignoring scientific advice, stifling innovation, binding farming in red tape, constipating agriculture and not following commonsense.
Press and Journal
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1473227?UserKey=#ixzz0WLMoZLYb
Rise of the monster wind farms
Picture a field of enormous windmills, each the height of London’s Gherkin skyscraper with blades as long as a jumbo jet. Does this sound fantastical?
The government doesn’t think so. Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, recently stumped up £4.4m of public money to help finance the first of these monster turbines, to be built at a former shipyard in
Blyth, Northumberland.
The Times
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article6907984.ece
Thanks for the MBE, Ma’am, any sausages with that? Butcher sports pen at investiture
Hats are de rigueur when the Queen is awarding honours but this must be the first time she has been faced by a recipient sporting a pen.
William Lloyd Williams collected his MBE for services to the meat industry with a biro tucked neatly behind his ear at Buckingham Palace yesterday.
The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6906048.ece
Farming ‘must get back to small-scale family production’
The SAOS conference, which brings together representatives from all the Scottish farm co-operatives, usually focuses on the latest technology and progress.
However, yesterday a professor from the USA set the delegates back on their heels by suggesting their style of farming was finished and what was needed was a return to “pre- industrial production”
The Scotsman
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Farming-39must-get-back-to.5800909.jp
Farm horror as man crushed to death under forklift truck
The owners of a farm in East Lothian where a man was crushed to death under a forklift truck have spoken of their shock.
The man, named locally as George Thompson, had been paving the steading at Greendykes Farm in Tranent yesterday morning when he was struck by a reversing forklift truck.
Edinburgh Evening News
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Farm-horror-as-man-crushed.5804681.jp