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January 29, 2008
JANUARY 24, 2008: With growing numbers of people keeping livestock in small numbers, theHumane Slaughter Association has produced a new booklet, ‘Caring tothe end - a guide to the humane dispatch of livestock for smallholders,hobby…
January 29, 2008
JANUARY 29, 2008: Members of the Schools Farms Network, supported by the Department forChildren, Schools & Families and the Federation of City Farms andCommunity Gardens, have produced a resource aimed at teachers calledGet Your Hands…
January 28, 2008
JANUARY 28, 2008: Exports of live calves become outlawed if a new initiative is successful.
January 28, 2008
JANUARY 28, 2008: Tests are being carried out to check whether there has been a new outbreak of the bluetongue in animals in north-west England.
January 28, 2008
JANUARY 23, 2008: Two sisters who set up an online dating agency for country people havespent two months touring Britain in a motorhome to find out how theytick.
January 28, 2008
JANUARY 28, 2008: In what is thought to be a first for cattle breed societies, theLonghorn Cattle Society has produced a DVD to promote the breed.
January 27, 2008
JANUARY 27, 2008: Last year was the worst for potato blight in 50 years, but the SoilAssociation said two-thirds of its organic farmers managed by usingblight resistant varieties, crop rotations and burning or choppinginfected vegetation.
January 27, 2008
JANUARY 27, 2008: Scientists carry out some bizarre experiments – and giving worms antidepressants might seem among the strangest.
January 26, 2008
JANUARY 25, 2008: Shoppers now have plenty to think about when they buy food – animalwelfare, pesticides, antibiotics, food miles, carbon emissions, not tomention price.
January 25, 2008
JANUARY 25, 2008: Garden Organic has joined forces with the Soil Association to helpfarmers account for the loss of produce during this year’s wet growingseason.
January 25, 2008
JANUARY 26, 2008: A staggering 98% of vegetable varieties have disappeared over the last100 years and EU regulations are set to speed this decline.
