Welcome to Ruminant Health & Welfare
Welcome to the first RH&W newsletter of 2024
Our important work continues with our focus now on developing a beef welfare strategy with the working group as well as progressing the welfare goals identified in the dairy and sheep strategies through 2024.
As...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
Mineral-oil-based fuels suffer a good deal of bad publicity, but the government’s enthusiasm for batteries as a universal method of energy storage means that alternative sources of diesel are overlooked.
Carbon-based fuels, such as diesel, have several...
Just an observation last night as driving home.
Lot of horse paddocks on rough ground. At the moment lot I went past are just muddy bogs. Some right against the river. (if was cattle then would be hell to pay...)
Nothing against horses, but surely would be better covering the pony paddocks in...
Maybe we are getting this wrong. Double the Red Tractor fees and spend all the money on a marketing campaign. But...
"If it doesn't have a Red Tractor on it, it's cheap stuff from God knows where, that has been sprayed and injected with God knows what"
That would call out the supermarkets...
Now I read this before somewhere and thought what a great idea, tell the welsh government to stick their schemes up their hole and just sell our carbon storage pasture credits in an open market to wealthier businesses looking to store carbon on pasture or whatever and only take the price we want...
During Covid, the supermarkets were started on a path of 'pre-competitive collaboration'.
It worked well and they were keen to do more.
This resulted in the WWF basket;
https://www.wwf.org.uk/wwf-basket
We then have a cost of living crisis and the government want the supermarkets to subdue food...
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I see there appears to be some momentum to protest but @delilah is right... what are YOU going to protest about?
I suspect we all want something different as we are often divergent from each other even within each sector.
If I was in Cardiff with a banner, it would be focused on the dash to net...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Andrew Muir is Northern Ireland’s new farm minister, appointed with the task of heading up the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
The Alliance Party representative hails from Bangor in north Co. Down, and has a...
He didn't once mention the farmer's supply chain, that all the risk is placed on farmers, without any compensation. He seems to think the NFU is solely an arm of DEFRA!
Personally I think the agricultural industry in the uk and other western countries is being run by an academic led doomsday cult. The brainwashed individuals in positions of power everywhere are being led by anti meat eating and climate change snake oil salesmen that have no business deciding...
Worth a watch - I watched part one tonight and it focused on Shirebrook pit & village and the division in the community at the time
Some parallels from 20th Century mining, with farming in the 21st Century
Break the dominance of the miners and then close the pits (despite those pits sitting on...
Looking at the whole picture from the frying to the supermarket storage space to the nutrients provided the footprint of a bag of fresh air with some salt and a few slices of potato must be massive.
Why is there no focus on the carbon footprint of all these non proper food processed food...
Posted elsewhere but might as well post it here too. FT today. Bit of a read, but just shows how utterly fekked up all of this is.
One bit stands out:
Smith, the University of Aberdeen professor, says carbon sequestration can buy food suppliers “time to decarbonise the rest of their supply...
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