March 2, 2008
Biofuels study launched by Government
FEBRUARY 29, 2008: Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has commissioned a new study into thewider economic and environmental impacts of biofuels, to help guidefuture government policy.
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March 1, 2008
Disease threatens frogs
FEBRUARY 28, 2008: To help save England’s frogs, toads and newts, amateur amphibian fansare being trained to track a potentially deadly disease that could havea devastating effect on amphibians.
February 29, 2008
NFU ‘misquoted’ in criticism of smallholders
FEBRUARY 29, 2008: The NFU claims its President, Peter Kendall, was "misquoted" by The Times when he was reported as saying that smallholders should be licensed.
February 29, 2008
Big switch to free-range chicken
FEBRUARY 29, 2008: Nearly twofifths of consumers have switched to free-range chicken since lastmonth's media coverage of intensively farmed birds, according to research.
February 28, 2008
Appeal for more rain-fed farming
FEBRUARY 28, 2008: British farmers are being urged to make greater use of rain-fed agriculture by a group of experts.
February 28, 2008
New Bill on compensation claims
FEBRUARY 27, 2008: AN MP seeking to change the law on compensation claims will try to introduce a second Bill on the subject after the first did not become law. Stephen Crabb’s Bill seeks to…
February 27, 2008
New farm produce initiative
FEBRUARY 27, 2008: A new initiative to promote the sale of farm produce is set to take off.
February 27, 2008
Warning on waste regulations
FEBRUARY 27, 2008: By May this year, farmers and smallholders should have arrangements inplace for the disposal of any veterinary or hazardous waste under theHazardous Waste Regulations 2005 managed by the Environment Agency.
February 20, 2008
Bluetongue zone to include Cornwall
FEBRUARY 20, 2008: Cornwall is to be included in the bluetongue disease surveillance zone- because this would make it easier for farmers to move cattle.
February 19, 2008
Smallholders reject claim they are risk to farming
FEBRUARY 19, 2008: Smallholders have hit back at the National Farmers' Union over claims that many of them pose a threat to the farming industry.
February 19, 2008
PM praises farmers’ ‘resilience and ingenuity’
FEBRUARY 19, 2008: Farmers have been praised for their 'resilience and ingenuity' by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
