November 5, 2007
Bid to restore heathland
November 2007: A project in Cornwall is promoting the restoration of heathland through traditional management.
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November 5, 2007
Emus ‘no longer on danger list’
November 2007: Emus have been removed from the list of animals requiring a Dangerous Wild Animals Licence.
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 5, 2007
Avian Flu
Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease affecting the respiratory, digestive and/or nervous system of many species of birds.
November 4, 2007
Guanaco ‘best kept secret’
November 2007: Fibre from guanaco grazed in the Staffordshire Moorlands will be made into handwoven pashmina shawls and will be available at a special launch in November.
November 3, 2007
Wonder wine
November 2007: A SMALLHOLDING couple in the West Country caused amazement when their first ever crop was ready for harvesting a month before anywhere else in the UK.
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
Farmers acting on climate change’
November 2007: Eighty-one per cent of farmers in England believe the global climate is changing – and 70 per cent believe these changes offer them business benefits.
November 3, 2007
Anger at new bid to grow GM crops
November 2007: The only benefits GM crops have brought are to the biotech companies that own the patents and a few farmers growing them on an industrial scale, says Friends of the Earth.
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…
