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 - March 18
A DAILY look at how agriculture has caught the headlines across the country (Thursday, March 18).
Farmer reunited with stolen chickens and turkeys
A farmer who had 250 turkeys and chickens stolen from his Cambridgeshire farm has been reunited with some of his stolen livestock.
The animals were taken from a poultry farm in New Drove, Wisbech, between Tuesday 9 March and Friday 10 March.
But on Monday morning 50 of the birds were found wandering around a farm in Moises Bank near to Emneth in Norfolk.
BBC Online
http://tinyurl.com/yk2sop7
Visitors staying at farm can help with lambing
CITY slickers and townies can swap their briefcases and mobile phones for wellies and a shepherd’s crook to enjoy a real James Herriot experience.
Lovesome Hill Farm, on the outskirts of Northallerton, North Yorkshire, only a few miles from the famous vet’s old stamping ground, is offering visitors the chance to get involved in country matters.
Northern Echo
http://tinyurl.com/ybyqyv4
“You don’t have to spend millions to promote Welsh Lamb”
“NOT again!” wails Daphne Tilley on seeing a posse of reporters descend on her Denbighshire home, all anxious to meet NFU Cymru’s current Welsh Woman Farmer of the Year.
In her line of work, publicity is a Faustian pact: it’s sought but not always welcomed.
Daily Post
http://tinyurl.com/yzv6yxz
Farmers raise cash to help African growers
SCOTTISH young farmers are to raise funds towards helping farmers and food producers in West Africa’s poorer countries.
The Spirit of Hope campaign, to which Scottish young farmers have pledged £15,000, will help train farmers in Benin to grow crops, helping them and their families to be self sufficient.
The Scotsman
http://tinyurl.com/yz4ectt
Nocton villagers make case against super-dairy
Villagers angry over a proposed £40m super-dairy in Lincolnshire are sending a list of 20-plus objections to planning officers.
More than 80 villagers crammed into Nocton Village Hall on Tuesday night when the parish council noted their concerns about the 8,100-cow dairy which would operate 24-hours a day.
This is Lincolnshire
http://tinyurl.com/ydvv63m
Organic farming has sold out and lost its way
The dreams of the early organic pioneers have been subsumed into a rush for global supply chains, strict regulations and fast-selling brands
Back in 1975, when I first started converting my farm to organic agriculture, there were no standards for production and no rule book.
The Ecologist
http://tinyurl.com/y9ejqnf
The rights and wrongs of halal
Calls to outlaw halal and schechita slaughter are a diversion from the truth – that killing animals is never pleasant.
I remember vividly the first time I saw an animal slaughtered at our home in Sudan.
The Guardian
http://tinyurl.com/ycwut3x
CheltenhamFestival: Willie Amos hoping to conquer Ladbroke World Hurdle on Lie Forrit
Trainers come from varied backgrounds, quite a few of them from farming, but Willie Amos, who sends out his first Festival runner when Lie Forrit lines up against Big Buck’s in the Ladbroke World Hurdle, must be unique among them.
Besides a small string of horses, which won at a strike-rate of one to every five and a half runners last season, he runs an 800-acre Borders hill farm with 1,300 sheep, 60 cattle and paid for it all by working a fortnight on, a fortnight off for three years on North Sea oil rigs.
Daily Telegraph
http://tinyurl.com/ya8ber4
