Search results for: animal welfare updates
Search results for: animal welfare updates
Borders Vet Lab Visit
…be used in conjunction with your vet and a discussion on current animal health concerns. This meeting is open to everyone and is free to attend. This meeting is part…
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Agribusiness News November 2023 – Sheep
…cheapest forms of animal protein as well as an increased supply of poultry due to a lower amount of avian influenza affecting flocks. EU customers The EU remains committed to…
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Organic Farming for New Entrants
…work to a strict set of standards; this ensures that their farms sustain the health of soils, ecosystems, animals and people. The key principles of organic agriculture are: Health Ecology…
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Going Organic – The Pros and Cons in Practice
…Paolo Berardelli who has farmed organically in Lochaber for around 20 years, Joanna Sinclair from SOPA the organic certification body, the animal health impact will be covered by Kythe MacKenzie…
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Climate Resilience Vlogs
…Alternative forages may hold potential for your farm to improve resilience to changing climate and benefit animal performance. In this video, Poppy Frater, SAC Consulting and William Flemming, Germinal GB,…
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Fundamentals of Soil Carbon
…animal wastes. Therefore, soil organic matter (SOM) contains a range of nutrients including carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other nutrients, with SOM being approximately 58% carbon. How is soil…
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Soil Health Testing – Why and How?
…are available to us to investigate the state of soil health. ‘Soil health’ the term for a soil’s ability to continue to provide multiple functions to sustain plant, animal, and…
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Faecal Egg Counts (FEC) to Monitor Parasite Load
…geographical reach. How Do We Monitor the Parasite Load of Livestock? The gold standard test for monitoring the worm burden in live animals is faecal egg counts (FEC). This is…
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MMN September 2023 – Nature Auditing and Restoration
…there has been much speculation that carbon auditing, something many are now familiar with, would be built into policy and future payments, but biodiversity is a different, less clear animal….
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Thrill of the Hill – Don’t Go Bracken My Heart
…poses human, animal and environmental health. Independent advice from the SG Chief Scientific Adviser for Environment and Rural Affairs, and the Expert Committee on Pesticides supported this conclusion, and Scotland,…
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