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the bit that i liked was that the location of the animal was locked in when it was registered. The chap made a good point when said if you cant prove where the animal started everything else is not proveable, they then showed registering an animal and locking in the location using a smart phone...

heres a question, with the new proposed regs and system if foot and mouth popped up the week after it was rolled out would we be able to stop it any quicker or more effectively than last time?

Seen at a presentation last year a working system that was reading tags directly from smartphone no readers needed. The chaps presenting showed us it working and that there is no need for EID at all. Apparently they took the system to NFU and Red tractor as it also made it impossible to steal...

So is having industry pay millions for a system that has been shown to numerous livestock steering groups after the NFU, Red Tractor and Tesco all decided it wasn't appropriate. industry is moving on and some of the technology being showcased at the moment is light years ahead of what is being...

Whats the current situation with this? Has a patrol been launched yet?

what peoples thoughts on taking semen off a bull as well as insurance? looking at having our jumped on farm for a few reasons, one will prove fertility, two if any issue with the bull we will have straws of him in the tank and three i could then sell any left over straws? have discussed this...

Minimal efficiency gains" from sheep EID, maybe at industry level, but those who have embraced the technology and associated kit have seen big gains (us included). LF technology is proven time and time again to be unsatisfactory against other ID technologies hence minimal efficiency gains...

We saw it running at Lincolnshire show last week when they won the awards for innovation. Not sure still how they are doing it so cheap when you see the spec of it!

Anyone used the new water pump from agrismart? Runs 8 troughs directly of its own power supply?

It's interesting times I see things changing but unless it gets to a government level alas it will not make it past the existing leadership groups

any idea of company name?

thanks topground, this could be them, although they dont do AA it seems so not 100% sure?

not that i can see, one of the lads at the market was telling me this morning. seems too good to be true and cant find any information on "Geni"

Anyone come across "Geni" selling commercial genetics cheap as chips? Heard today of someone selling Angus and Belgian Blue direct onto farm for around £4 a straw with no minimum order quantities? Seem bit too good to be true, wondered if anyone had any dealings with "Geni"?

4m3 per hour, lift of 8m needed and distance of 500m

Anyone using solar pumps and if so any recommendations, need to be pretty heavy duty and capable of moving a substantial ammount of water? Thanks

No it won't be enough, like I said the only way is to exercise the power of stopping supply across the country. Could only happen if we united to a common goal

The point is that the producers not the processors or retailers have the control if we decided to exercise it. With out the raw material there is no market or processing simple as that. It would never happen in the current system but it could, it would then be the first step in a move to...

Remember the fuel protests in 2000, this would be over in less than a week if they just organised it! 2 days = no milk. It's 30p a litre for all to turn it back on. Processors and retailers sort it out amongst yourselves what happens after that.

Great work tff providing a way of getting real information without fudging it! We all should get behind this, we continually say no one listens to us farmers, if we speak up collectively on here they will have to listen. We have an opportunity like never before and TFF things like this are what...