Agriculture in the national news - August 3

Keep out the clones say campaigners

Food products containing milk or meat from cloned animals will “inevitably” end up on sale in Britain unless regulations are tightened, campaigners said last night.

As the Food Standards Agency investigated claims that a British farmer had illegally sold milk from the offspring of a cloned cow, the European Union faced calls for a ban on all foodstuffs from cloned animals.

Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/7923377/Keep-out-the-clones-say-campaigners.html

I would drink cloned milk

AN anonymous British dairy farmer has claimed he is selling milk from the offspring of a cloned cow - prompting alarm from consumer groups and an investigation by officials.

The cow at the centre of the row is thought to be the offspring of a normal bull and a cloned heifer in America.

The Sun
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3079199/Genetic-expert-I-would-drink-cloned-cows-milk.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=Features#ixzz0vX0KCOUn

Chicken rustler makes off with 11,000 birds from Scots farm

A CHICKEN rustler has cost farmers £25,000 - by stealing more than 11,000 birds from their farm.

Around 150 organic chickens have gone missing from the Insch poultry farm in Grampian every week over the past year.

Scottish Daily Record
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/08/03/chicken-rustler-makes-off-with-11-000-birds-from-scots-farm-86908-22460297/

UK’s Food and Farming minister doesn’t even know price of bread

The Food and Farming minister of UK, who manages the 7.2 billion pound farming industry, doesn’t even know the price of a loaf of bread.

Britain’s farming industry produces more than 22 million tons of grain each year, but Caroline Spelman, the minister behind the department is unaware about the price of a loaf of bread.

SIFY
http://sify.com/news/uk-s-food-and-farming-minister-doesn-t-even-know-price-of-bread-news-international-kicqOfbdcca.html

UK outperformed on broadband speeds

Romania, Latvia, South Korea and Japan all have faster internet speeds than the UK, according to Akamai, a digital content delivery network

The UK has slipped down the global rankings for the average internet speed achieved by web users. It dropped from 23rd to 27th in a list of 201 countries, according to a report from Akamai, a digital content delivery network provider.

Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/7923766/UK-outperformed-on-broadband-speeds.html

Future Of rural Scotland

Communities were today urged to speak up for rural Scotland and join the debate into its future.

A three month consultation has been launched on plans devised by the Rural Development Council to help economic recovery.

E-Gov
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/37789

Defra publishes London HQ’s real time energy use

A Government environmental department is from today (August 2) putting its energy use online in real time.

Power use at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is being published as part of green drive of Government departments.

Edie
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=18484&channel=0&title=Defra+publishes+London+HQ’s+real+time+energy+use+

Russian drought could harm livestock farmers worst

Russia’s drought may wreak bigger damage on livestock farmers than arable growers, US officials have warned, even as the country lowered its official forecast for the grains crop.

While the country’s driest spell in 130 years is being most closely linked to its implications for grains production, it threatened feed supplies to the livestock farmers that Russia has been championing, to become self-sufficient in chicken and pork.

Agrimoney
http://www.agrimoney.com/news/russian-drought-could-harm-livestock-farmers-worst—2059.html

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