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 6
A DAILY look at how agriculture has caught the headlines across the country (Friday, August 6).
Russia to impose temporary ban on grain exports
Russia is to ban the export of grain from 15 August to 31 December after drought and fires devastated crops.
“I think it is advisable to introduce a temporary ban on the export from Russia of grain and other agriculture products made from grain,” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
BBC Online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10879138
Shares of fertilizer makers rise with grain prices
Shares of fertilizer maker Potash Corp and its smaller North American rivals jumped on Thursday, as Russia’s worst drought in a century prompted one of the world’s biggest wheat producers to ban grain exports for the first time in 11 years.
The move sent already red-hot benchmark U.S. wheat prices up more than 8 percent to a 23-month high, while the prices of corn and soybeans also rose sharply on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Clone protesters deliver petition
Masked David Cameron ‘clones’ have gathered at a London landmark as part of a stunt by campaigners against the cloning of animals for food production.
The 35 clones lined up outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, holding a large banner stating Cloning = Cruelty as campaigners prepared to walk down Whitehall to present a petition to Downing Street.
UKPA
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gYQ8H1bGXPoh8rtIpcD1UiLQ6Gaw
Could taxpayer have to compensate cloned cow farmer?
The taxpayer could have to pay out £500,000 compensation for the slaughter of the offspring of cloned cows, after the farmer at the centre of the row said he was considering destroying them.
Steven Innes, the farmer who with his father owns 96 cows who are the second-generation offspring of a cloned cow, said destroying the cows was an option.
“We possibly will have to destroy,” he said.
Charity farm needs a new farmer to fill its wellies
A Cambridgeshire charity is looking for a special person to fill its farmer’s wellies.
The Prospects Trust gives horticultural experience to people with learning difficulties, disabilities and mental ill health.
BBC Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8881000/8881044.stm
New talks over Nocton super dairy farm
The company behind plans to build a so-called super dairy in Lincolnshire is to discuss a new application with local residents.
In April, Nocton Dairies Ltd withdrew a scheme for an 8,000 cow facility at Nocton Heath near Lincoln, saying they wanted to address concerns raised.
BBC Online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-10891345
GM plants ‘established in the wild’
Researchers in the US have found new evidence that genetically modified crop plants can survive and thrive in the wild, possibly for decades.
A University of Arkansas team surveyed countryside in North Dakota for canola. Transgenes were present in 80% of the wild canola plants they found.
BBC Online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10859264
Rural housing ‘crisis’ prices young people out
It’s now harder than ever for young people living in rural areas to get on the housing ladder, Newsbeat’s been told.
Campaign group The National Housing Federation claims the average rural house price in England is now more than 12 times the average salary of people living in rural areas.
BBC Online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/10876900
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