There is a well known saying, 'no pain, no gain' and that will be ringing true in the minds of Milk Link’s 1,600 producers, who are on the brink of reaping just reward for 12 years of loyalty and investment.Agriculture in the national news - September 20
A DAILY look at how agriculture has hit the headlines across the country (Monday, September 20)
‘Next step’ decision due on bovine TB policy in Wales
The rural affairs minister is due to announce the next step in the policy for dealing with TB in cattle in Wales.
The decision comes two months after the Badger Trust won an appeal court ruling to stop a planned badger cull in Pembrokeshire.
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11362740
Eat meat and save the planet, says eco-warrior and former vegetarian
Simon Fairlie, a farmer and writer, is now shattering the consensus that we should avoid eating any meat or raising any animals in order to save the planet.
In a new book that questions the impact of meat-eating on greenhouse gases, he says the vegan diet espoused by many environmentalists is “neither sensible nor attainable for society as a whole”.
The Telegraph
Firefighters battle barn blaze at Barrow farm
FIRE crews from Chester and Ellesmere Port have been battling for most of today (Sunday, September 19) to safely extinguish a barn fire at a farm near Barrow.
The incident was reported to Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service just after 4am, with four appliances from both fire stations being sent to the blaze on Long Green, just off the B5132, due to low water pressure in the area.
Chester Chronicle
World’s largest wind farm to open off Kent coast
The world’s largest offshore wind farm is set to open off the Kent coast just weeks after fresh data revealed wind energy production had eached new heights
Energy secretary Chris Huhne will unveil the 100 turbines, which sit 12km off Foreness Point near Ramsgate, on Thursday alongside Øystein Løseth, president of Vattenfall, the Swedish power company behind the development.
Kent News
Farm thefts in the Cotswolds are having devastating affects
FARMERS say the theft of quad bikes and farm equipment is having a devastating effect on their livelihoods.
Preventing and detecting the crime is a police priority in the north Cotswolds after fears were raised at a community meeting.
Gloucestershire Echo
Industrialised farming will not make us more self-sufficient
Organic farmers and food companies, long used to being attacked by Jay Rayner (“Big agriculture is the only option to stop food riots in Britain”, Comment) can take some comfort that we have become, in his eyes, part of a “holy trinity”, along with local and seasonal food, that has nothing to do with the “real issues” of food security.
What bunk! Of course we should stop throwing away cosmetically imperfect fruit and we must be more self-sufficient, but true self-sufficiency means being self-sufficient in the nutrients and land needed to produce our food, not just importing a bit less of the final product.
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/19/big-issue-agriculture-industrialised-farming
Farmers back fresh talks on badger culls
CATTLE farmers have welcomed a new badger culling debate following the announcement of a Government consultation to tackle bovine TB.
Worcestershire stock holders have broadly welcomed a proposal to re-introduce culls in selected “hotspot” areas.
Worcester News
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/8396647.Farmers_back_fresh_talks_on_badger_culls/
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