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Farming News for 15 April 2008

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Shepherd wins bid to ward off walkers

Apr 15 2008

A FARMER has won the right to stop anyone else using an area of common land while his ewes are lambing....

More action needed for bovine tuberculosis

Apr 15 2008

After being virtually eliminated in Britain in the 1950s, bovine tuberculosis has turned into an epidemic since resurfacing in the late 1970s....

No badger cull site named yet

Apr 15 2008

THE site of the first ever cull of badgers in Wales will probably not be known until the autumn....

Black Cattle pedigree sales

Apr 15 2008

THE Welsh Black Cattle Society will hold the first of three spring pedigree store sales at Llandovery this week....

PROFESSOR Wayne Powell, chief executive of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, will be Professor and Foundation Director at the new Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (Ibers) at Aberystwyth....

Minister hoping badger cull doesn't cost votes

Apr 15 2008

The science is inconclusive. But the badger has a cuddly image that belies its nature as an omnivore that kills and eats hedgehogs and devours eggs....

Beekeepers face troubled future

Apr 15 2008

There are around 300 commercial beekeepers in the UK....

Market Report

Apr 15 2008

This week's reports from around the markets...

How goats bring hope for people of Uganda

Apr 15 2008

WE ARE standing in the middle of a blisteringly hot, Ugandan enclosure waiting for the goats to appear. It’s midday – not the best time to be out of the shade, but Africa Time has caused us to be late for our appointment....