Following the lead of the United States' Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and as described in other papers from Africa we shall in future, refer the 'bovine' TB, as Zoonotic tuberculosis. The word 'bovine' seems to...

Author Name: UK Energy Research Centre Carbon capture and storage principally consists of three operations: capturing carbon at the power plant or industrial application; transporting it to appropriate storage sites; and storing it underground. The process...

A minor but nonetheless important parliamentary event took place yesterday, with the opposition day debate on the badger cull, against the motion that, "this House believes the badger cull should not go ahead". Fronted by Mary Creagh, Labour...

Yesterday, a smattering of MPs made the effort to put the case for the management of an acknowledged and proven wildlife source of zoonotic tuberculosis in England, during a 3 hour debate in the House of Commons. After spending a productive afternoon...

Author Name: New Agriculturist Amidst a spate of crop pest epidemics threatening farming livelihoods and ecologies around the world, in May 2013, the Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development (FARMD) hosted a webinar to explore global solutions...

Author Name: SeedQuest Plants can't swat a bug or run away from one, but that doesn't mean that they can't fight back. They have evolved unique and sophisticated immune systems to defend themselves against insects and pathogens. Plant hormones...

Author Name: Simon Haley, Reading Agricultural Consultants via Twitter Twitter is the preferred social media platform for farmers and rural businesses due to its reach beyond the industry, the sharing of best practice and the speed of communication. Any...

Author Name: Simon Haley, Reading Agricultural Consultants via Twitter There was a high transferability of skills from agriculture for off-farm incomes, with hot tubs, carpentry and video presenter all quoted as work done by farmers. Common sense and...

I’ve got a trailer to clean out. Funnily enough I really don’t mind this job despite the fact that I inevitably get some form of poo in my hair, all over my clothes and face. I get to use the pressure washer which is a little joy of mine. Muck be gone...

We mentioned in this posting the emergence of bovine zoonotic tuberculosis in the Ardennes region of France. More is emerging on the response of the French authorities to this threat. If you remember, they had already confirmed disease in two badgers...

Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued new guidance to privide applicants and risk assessors with a clear framework to evaluate the potential adverse...

Author Name: Eider Unamuno, ESKTN A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused. The study identified 4000 abstracts...

Author Name: Eider Unamuno, ESKTN A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused. The study identified 4000 abstracts...

Author Name: BPEX The drinking behaviour of diseased pigs has been found to deviate from the consistent patterns seen in healthy pigs; the behavioural changes appear in the sub-clinical stage of infection, before disease symptoms become visually apparent...

As a few high profile but vociferous opponents of the control of tuberculosis prepare to descend on London today (are there any badgers in the Metropolis?) we have prepared a 'Wish list' to summarize the current stupidity policies surrounding...

Brief extract from new book is now in print in the Tain and District Post magazine (June edition). More to follow in future monthly editions. Email contacts this past week include Queen Anne's School in Caversham (an ex pupil who left in 1945 was...

Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network A working group, established by BBSRC's Food Security Strategy Advisory Panel, has made recommendations for a 5-year Strategy to help shape BBSRC funded wheat research. Key research...

Author Name: Alex Blake, Resource The European Environment Agency (EEA) has revealed that greenhouse gas emissions in the 27 European Union (EU) member states fell in 2011, despite the second largest decline in the consumption of renewable energy in 21...

Author Name: New ADAS Newsletter ADAS has produced the first in a series of newsletters on UK scientific participation in the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), an initiative that brings countries together to find ways to...

We are grateful for updates on the developing situation in parts of mainland Europe, where bovine tuberculosis was thought to have been eradicated. With incidence at or below 0.02 percent of cattle reactors and 0.01 per cent of registered herds, TB Free...

Author Name: BSAS The debate around large-scale livestock farming has to shift away from emotion and focus on science if UK farmers are to be given the opportunity to produce more food in a sustainable way. BSAS Emeritus Professor Chris Warkup said too...

Author Name: Ecofys Updated information on the world's greenhouse gas emissions How much greenhouse gas does the world produce annually? The answer is clearly visualised in the World Resources Institute’s info graphic on the world’s greenhouse...

Today the press is full of Defra Secretary of State Owen Paterson's comments as the June 1st start date for a pilot cull of badgers approaches. The firewall protected Sunday Times has this taster: OWEN PATERSON, the environment secretary, has drawn...

Hardly a day passes without reference to the rise of on line shopping and how it will affect the retail landscape. Last week we heard that Morrisons supermarket are paying £170m to Ocado for their depot in Warwickshire, a further £30m to license their...

Author Name: Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine “Humanity now stands at Peak Farmland, and the 21st century will see [the] release of vast areas of land, hundreds of millions of hectares, more than twice the area of France, for nature,” declared...