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You can still use pre-printed application forms to apply for cattle passports

Cattle keepers can still use pre-printed application forms (PPAFs) to apply for passports. Only those who have applied for 85 per cent or more of their passports electronically will not receive PPAFs. Other keepers will continue to receive them and can use them if they wish. Movement cards can still...

Posted to Livestock Lines (Forum) by BCMS on Tue, Aug 9 2011
Re: Get your questions answered on changes to cattle movement recording

The new style passport has been introduced in response to industry and farmers requests and to reduce costs to the tax payer. The new passport is cheaper to produce and post, and will save £1million a year. The new passports are printed on heavier weighted paper which should stand to being moved around...

Posted to Livestock Lines (Forum) by BCMS on Wed, Aug 3 2011
Consumer Purchases of "Ethical" Foods - Some Data from DEFRA

It is difficult to get a factual grip on the difference between what consumers say they will do and what they actually do when buying food. DEFRA has had a stab at this as part of their effort to build a sustainable food chain. Their research confirms that consumers are interested in the issues surrounding...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, May 8 2011
A possible hairy situation for the NFU

Dear oh dear. I can’t image the NFU team are a bunch of happy bunnies at the moment. Having given DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman a telling off this week for not taking farming seriously enough, this morning it’s emerged government plans for a badger cull to tackle bovine TB are being delayed. The setback...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 18 2011
The DEFRA love-in turns sour

After the glamour of the Soil Association conference in Manchester last week, this week I’m at the NEC in Birmingham for the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting. With no general election on the immediate horizon, union president Peter Kendall in the hot seat for another year and a DEFRA...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 15 2011
Reports of a tiff are greatly exaggerated

Mark Twain, in the title there. Not sure it worked, but it’s made me feel a bit cultured. Poor old Andrew George though, eh? And I’m not just pitying him for this terrible photo we keep wheeling out on FWi: Having spent years helping the NFU thrash out arguments advocating a supermarket ombudsman...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Sep 27 2010
Democrats doubly disappointed

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Lib Dem Andrew George is disappointed the Lib Dems don’t have anyone DEFRA, as covered by Farmers Weekly and Western Morning News. Spot the difference, anyone? Share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Sep 27 2010
The age of austerity

Mr News Editor, Mr Chief Reporter and I went into London on Tuesday to have lunch with DEFRA farm minister Jim Paice. We were meeting him ahead of his official announcement about the possibility of allowing farmers to cull badgers to help combat bovine tuberculosis. The idea was we’d get the low...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Sep 15 2010
Re: A farm life is a longer life?

Nice to see DEFRA are spending their money so wisely! I guess they'll be cutting this sort of stuff out now Mr Osborne has confiscated their chequebook!

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Julian Gairdner on Wed, May 26 2010
Trouble already in DEFRA’s paradise…

Oh dear, things aren’t looking so good for DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman – and she hasn’t even been in the job a week. There were rumblings of discontent at the weekend over possible conflicts of interest between Cazza’s new post and her links to food and bio-tech lobbying...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, May 18 2010

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