By unlocking the export potential China offers the pig industry, not to mention the red meat sector as a whole, we could gain entry into a marketplace which comprises a fifth of the world’s population.Agriculture in the national news - August 2
A DAILY look at how agriculture has hit the headlines across the country (Monday, August 2)
Milk from offspring of cloned cow ‘sold in Britain’
The Food Standards Agency is investigating the claim made by an anonymous British dairy farmer.
The FSA said it believed that the practice of selling milk from cloned cows and their offspring was illegal.
Daily Telegraph
Farm land prices leap 120%
Forget sagging share prices, rock-bottom savings rates and a shaky housing market. Emerging triumphant from the credit crunch is the oldest commodity of them all - farmland.
Prices per acre have shot up by 120% over the past five years, according to property specialist Savills, as domestic and overseas investors seek to cash in.
This Is Money
Farmers call for dog poop bins to be installed in countryside to cut down risk to animals
FARMERS want councils to introduce poop scoop bins in the countryside to force dog owners to clean up after their pets.
The National Farmers’ Union in Scotland have warned that dirty dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets are harming cattle and sheep.
Daily record
Power giant Drax close to deal on creating green fuel factory
DRAX is close to finalising plans for a second straw pelleting plant to provide green fuel for its coal-fired plant.
The North Yorkshire power station operator wants to build the plant in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, following the success of a smaller plant in Goole.
Yorkshire Post
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/businessnews/Power-giant-Drax-close-to.6451459.jp
Coastal path round England threatened by spending cuts
The £50m scheme, to give walkers the right to roam along almost 2,500 miles of coast, has been delayed indefinitely in favour of cheaper, localised improvements.
Announced by the Labour government in 2008, the path is part of wider measures to improve access to the countryside.
The Telegraph
Cost of owning a horse soars as hay crops suffer in dry summer
Feed bills for horses are expected to be hundreds of pounds higher this year after the cost of hay rose by 40 per cent.
Equine welfare organisations say that they have already seen a 25 per cent increase in horses needing sanctuary this year and are expecting a further rise as families struggle to cope with soaring costs.
Daily Telegraph
Middletown farmer threatened with sledgehammer
A farmer has been threatened by two men armed with a sledgehammer during an incident in Middletown, County Armagh, on Saturday night.
At about 2045 BST the man was driving into his farm at Drumhillery Road when he disturbed two men, one armed with a sledgehammer, trying to enter a shed.
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-10831257
Supreme champion was won in a raffle!
THE SHORTHORN cow which won the Supreme Champion title at the Southern District Agricultural Show was won by the owners in a raffle!
Belinda and Dougie Coole’s cow – full title Rodway Moss Rose, but known on the farm as ‘Rose’ - came to the Island after Belinda won the animal as a calf at a specialist shorthorn gathering.
IsleofMan.com
http://www.isleofman.com/News/article.aspx?article=28084&area=
Man hurt as tractor rolls over him in Bridgnorth
A man had to be airlifted to hospital after a tractor rolled over him at the bottom of a hill in Shropshire.
Paramedics were called to a wooded area in Monkhopton, in Bridgnorth, on Saturday afternoon.
BBC News
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