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  • ***LIVESTOCK WORK EXPERIENCE***

    Hello all, I am looking to gain husbandry experience with any and all livestock by helping out wherever I can/needed. For the moment I can commit to working 5-7 days at a time and seek no payment other than hands on work with any farm animals. I am a hard worker and this experience will really benefit...
    Posted to Forum policies and rules (Forum) by AspiringVet on Mon, Jun 10 2013

  • EFSA issues new guidance on GM animals

    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 effects of living genetically modified (GM) animals...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Jun 3 2013

  • More science needed in large-scale livestock debate

    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 much emphasis had been put on the perceived welfare...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, May 29 2013

  • Geostatistics and precision farming

    Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding A new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association by University of Reading Professor Margaret A. Oliver explains that spatial variation...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, May 3 2013

  • Straw – what is it good for?

    Author Name: AHDB ed Alan Spedding There is a significant amount of potential profit for the grower, as well as bedding or energy potential, in the millions of tonnes of straw which is currently incorporated into the soil. Straw incorporation is seen by some as a useful means of sequestering carbon and...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Apr 29 2013

  • Alternative protein sources

    Author Name: Richard Weightman, ADAS ed Alan Spedding Richard Weightman explains why investigating alternative sources of protein for use in livestock feed is crucial for reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint and improving profitability for primary producers. read more
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Thu, Apr 4 2013

  • Behavioral Principles of Livestock Handling

    Author Name: Temple Grandin, Livestock Handling Systems. Inc, Animal Science Department, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 Reducing stress during handling will improve productivity and prevent physiological changes that could confound research results or lower productivity. Handling...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 20 2013

  • SRUC asks farmers for help in pain perception survey

    Author Name: SRUC SRUC researchers are calling on all British farmers to take part in a survey on pain and disease in animals. The researchers hope the survey will help them understand the attitudes and viewpoints of the people who look after livestock on a daily basis. The project will analyse how farm...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Feb 27 2013

  • Animal Husbandry Regained - the place of farm animals in sustainable agriculture

    Author Name: John Webster The farming of animals for meat and milk confronts a stark dilemma. While world demand from a growing and more affluent human population is increasing rapidly, there are strong counter-arguments that we should eat less meat and pay more attention to environmental protection...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 19 2013

  • The National Centre for Precision Farming

    Author Name: Harper Adams University Precision farming may be seen to be entering a new era of development in which engineering and associated technological innovation is opening up new dimensions of support and intervention, not only in the established disciplines of arable and livestock farming, but...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 8 2013
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