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• Three Farms Near Underwood in Spotlight at Lake Agassiz Festival

  Jun. 17, 2019

  View three family friendly farms in the Underwood area as SFA Lake Agassiz Chapter hosts Festival of Farms from 1 to 4 p.m. Sat., July 13, starting at The Stout Farm, 31755 County Hwy 1, Underwood.The Stout Farm produces items not easily available in the grocery store – lamb, duck, geese, and wool. This tour will focus on fencing, feed, housing, and marketing those animals as well as incorporating permaculture into livestock systems. Next, at 2 p.m., the tour moves to Westmill Farm, 30607 Phelps Mill Rd,...

• Tatura moves into goat milk powder

  Apr. 25, 2019

  Tatura Milk has begun processing goat milk, signing a five-year deal with premium infant formula company Bubs Australia to convert fresh goat milk directly from the farm gate into infant formula.Bubs Australia founder and chief executive Kristy Carr said the product would address growing demand for premium infant formula products.“Parents in Australia and abroad are looking for authentic provenance and traceability when it comes to infant nutritionals,” Mrs Carr said.“With the goat milk supply...

• Agrilevante, a resource for Mediterranean agriculture

  Mar. 5, 2019

  The 2019 edition of the showcase of technologies and machines for agriculture, to be held in the Bari exhibition centre from 10 to 13 October next, was presented in Bari. Growing numbers and a new section dedicated to animal husbandry, with the exhibition of fine breeds of cattle, horses, sheep and goats, characterize the review, organized by FederUnacoma and Nuova Fiera del Levante with the support of the Puglia Region Agriculture Department. Agrilevante confirms itself as a point of point reference for operators...

• The Dangers of Mad Cow Disease!

  Oct. 19, 2018

  For the first time in over ten years Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) better known as Mad Cow Disease has reared its head again in the UK with cases recorded on a farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland this October. A highly problematic virus that has previously devastated livestock in 1986 when 180,000 cattle were found to be infected, which led to a mass slaughter of 4.4 million cattle in the UK. Following this drastic outbreak many essential changes to how farming operates have been implemented which have...

• The Catastrophic Cost of Foot and Mouth Disease

  Aug. 23, 2018

  Foot and Mouth disease has never completely disappeared. Although it has been almost 20 years since the last major outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in the UK, which cost the industry more than £8 Billion, it does not mean that the disease is not still a very real risk to the economy. This August the first outbreak since 2001 in the UK was identified at an abattoir in Brentwood in Essex. Discovered in a total of 27 pigs as confirmed by a veterinary inspector. As soon as the outbreak was confirmed an...