November 21, 2007
Test for farmers ‘red tape gone mad’
NOVEMBER 2007: A new law to make farmers take a test if they drive animals more than 40 miles has been described as 'bureaucracy gone mad' by a union leader.
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November 16, 2007
Mission to learn about bluetongue
November 2007: A team of British farmers has been on a bluetongue fact-finding trip to France.
November 16, 2007
Licence move following H5N1 outbreak
November 2007: Defrahas made available general licences to address immediate issuesrelating to the movement of bird by-products and mammals in the zonesin place for Avian Influenza following the H5N1 outbreak at a Suffolk farm.
November 13, 2007
TB vaccine closer
Vaccination to control bovine tuberculosis could be a step closer with the development of a test which can distinguish between vaccinated and infected animals.
November 9, 2007
A trade in disease?
November 2007: Alan Beat looks at the wider implications of avian flu, and promotes a different way forward
November 5, 2007
Bluetongue – special report
Special report on the Defra approach to Bluetongue. Leading smallholder and CS columnist Alan Beat, who has made a study of the diseases, gives his views on DEFRA's approach.
November 5, 2007
Foot and Mouth disease
SPECIAL REPORT: Foot and Mouth Disease. Country Smallholding looks at the effects of FMD, how the disease is spread and control measures advised by DEFRA.
November 3, 2007
Animal diseases on rise globally’
November 2007: The recent arrival of the bluetongue virus in the UK indicates that animal diseases are advancing globally and countries will have to invest more in surveillance and control measures, says the UN’s Food…
November 3, 2007
Policy not disease the real problem’
November 3 2007: Policies for the control of economically significant livestock diseases are shaped primarily by political and international trading considerations, rather than by science or animal welfare, says leading smallholder and CS columnist Alan…
November 3, 2007
Loss of livestock breeds ‘alarming’
November 2007: The rate of extinction of livestock breeds around the world is “alarming”, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
November 2, 2007
FMD: how breeders are being hit
Red Ruby Devon cattle breeders are typical of farmers and smallholders who are being hit by the restrictions imposed following the latest outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
