Genomic testing / Genus ABS

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Livestock Farmer
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Pembs
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Good thing, or a worrying development?
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
good thing or waste of money I don't see why anyone would worry about testing cattle
both, good for the testing labs, and bad for removing money from farmers.
for the very best herds, sure it could be useful, but for many, perhaps better gains could be had from improving management, very slightly, before anyone gets upset. But it is the 'new' toy, along with genomic testing of bulls, feed efficiency etc, absolutely fine, if everything else is right, and an awful lot of trust, has gone to the 'testers' by farmers, hoping/believing they have it right.
 

Rossymons

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Cornwall
It's whatever you want from it.

Some of my guys have just got a massive glut of heifers and are using it as a screening process to find the bottom 25% that will go to beef regardless.

But for the majority of my farmers they have either Johnes or TB issues and every heifer will be kept until they find their way through those problems first.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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