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Livestock Recommendations - Farming Regulation Task Force
At the Oxford Farming Conference the Secretary of State announced: From 2016, the introduction of a generic 10 mile rule for CPH allocation across farmed species, alongside a new solution for dealing with land being used for temporary grazing within 10 miles of the home holding; From 2017, the abolition of all CTS Links and Sole Occupancy Authority (SOAs) licences; and In 2018, a full ...
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EPA Releases Report on Maryland Agriculture Programs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has completed an evaluation of Maryland’s animal agriculture regulations and programs. The assessment, which is one of six that the agency is conducting of state animal agriculture programs within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, found that Maryland has a robust and well-implemented state program. EPA conducts periodic reviews of ...
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Composting plant Lobau awarded with European Quality Label
At the SusGro 2015 in Vienna the composting plant Lobau was awarded with the European Quality Label by the Austrian Compost Quality Organisation (KGVÖ). The certificate was handed over by ECN Quality Manager Stefanie Siebert and Horst Müller, General Manager of KGVÖ, in the town hall of Vienna. The Austrian Compost Quality Assurance Organisation ‘KGVÖ’ has ...
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Solutions for the storage of liquid fertilizers
Nowadays, we use an intensive farming in which the land does not have rest as we are constantly cultivating. This lack of rest is translated in the inability of the plot of land of renovating the lost nutrients quickly enough. And that is why from an agronomic point of view, the fertilizers and fitosanitary products are the help needed to be able to continue harvesting. Many farmers prefer using ...
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EPA proposes better approach to reporting hazardous substances from farm animal waste
EPA has proposed a rule change to provide an administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances -- primarily ammonia and hydrogen sulfide -- from animal waste at farms. EPA is proposing a rule enabling response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance releases that require emergency response while reducing reporting burdens on America’s farms. ...
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Dairy farmers praise mandatory code progress
PEAK dairy farmer group Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) supports the federal government’s commitment to pursuing a mandatory Code of Conduct for the industry. A new code of practice is an important step for the dairy industry that will clarify and strengthen relationships between farmers and processors across all states of Australia. ADF has always said our aim is to address the ...
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Do agri-environmental policies support mixed farming systems?
The Large Scale Grazing Systems (LSGS) of the EU are governed by legislation at regional, national and European levels. New research investigates an LSGS in Spain and suggests that the area's traditional mix of sheep and cereal farming needs improved, better co-ordinated regulatory support to survive. LSGSs are large areas of countryside used for grazing in the EU, characterised by cultural ...
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Chile Mandates Real-time Environmental Monitoring at Salmon Farms
Ocean-based fish farms in Chile have been ordered by Chilean officials to start monitoring environmental conditions in and around their pens in real time and immediately transmit the data to government environmental agencies. According to the August regulation from the Superintendencia de Medioambiente (SMA), ocean-based aquaculture sites will need to monitor water conditions for dissolved ...
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Better approach to reporting hazardous substances from farm animal waste
EPA is announcing a final rule providing an administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste at farms. This rule will enable response authorities to better focus their attention on hazardous substance releases that require a response, while reducing reporting burdens on America’s farms. Notifications must still be made to response authorities when ...
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Pew Commission calls for better US animal waste treatment
One step beyond her front door, Jayne Clampitt is greeted with the toxic fumes flowing from the roughly 1 million gallons of hog manure stored at her neighbor's farm. She no longer dries her family's laundry outside, her children avoid the nearby polluted stream, and she worries that their shallow drinking well will also be contaminated with toxins. 'We thought there was this unspoken connection ...
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Things to know about marine aquaculture
Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported, yet the Obama administration's push to expand U.S. marine aquaculture into federal waters has failed to see one offshore farm in operation, nearly two years after the first permit was issued. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is pushing for marine aquaculture production in the U.S. to jump by 50 percent by 2020. The ...
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EU farm policy 2014-2020: MEPs give final blessing to greener and fairer CAP
A deal with the Council on five legislative acts reforming EU farm policy was endorsed by Parliament on Wednesday. The post-2013 Common agricultural policy (CAP) will put more emphasis on environmental protection, ensure fairer distribution of EU funds and help farmers to cope better with market challenges. “The first ever reform of the EU farm policy decided jointly by ministers and ...
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New Aquaculture Regulations Will help Foster a Responsible & Sustainable Industry
The proposed new federal Aquaculture Activities Regulations, announced today (June 26, 2014), will strengthen environmental protection and facilitate a growing, responsible, and sustainable seafood farming industry said Ruth Salmon, Executive Director of the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance. "Canada has a unique opportunity to be a world leader in responsible seafood farming," said Ruth ...
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EPA sued for scrapping livestock data collection
Environmental and animal welfare groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyon Wednesday, alleging the federal agency unlawfully scrapped a rule that would have authorized it to collect information from large-scale livestock confinement farms. The Center for Food Safety, Environmental Integrity Project, Food & Water Watch, The Humane Society and Iowa Citizens for Community ...
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Bird flu confirmed in commercially-farmed birds in the Netherlands
On the night of Friday 25 November 2016, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) confirmed an outbreak of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) on a duck farm in Biddinghuizen (municipality of Dronten). The birds on this farm, at three other locations belonging to the same concern in Hierden and one location in Ermelo, were humanely destroyed as a preventive measure. Some 180,000 ducks were culled. ...
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Be Prepared
As you are aware, there is a current outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) and the number of outbreaks are increasing across the globe leaving flocks and farming businesses devastated. When an event like this occurs are you equipped to deal with your fallen stock on site to limit the extent of the outbreak further? Have you ever considered incineration as the ultimate bio secure method of ...
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Appeals Court sends `Dead Zone` Lawsuit Back to Judge
A federal judge who ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take action to regulate farm runoff and other pollution blamed for the Gulf of Mexico's annual oxygen-depleted "dead zone" must take a second crack at his ruling. An appeals court has ordered U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey to reassess his 2013 order telling the EPA to set federal limits on the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorous, ...
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Illumitex Expands to Vertical Farms Across the Globe
Illumitex is expanding its LED lighting services to six international countries in the vertical farming industry. Among the international vertical farms Illumitex is currently working with are Remy located in Israel, Asahi Techno in Japan, Agricool in France and aquaponic startups in Norway and Italy. Illumitex’s involvement with the Association for Vertical Farming, educational events, ...
By Illumitex
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European Consortium Receives €2.2 Million to Develop Safe Solution to Control Sea Lice
Sea lice are the most significant and widespread parasites in open sea aquaculture, causing health issues to cultured fish and a severe risk for the marine environment. The economic damage resulting of sea lice exceeds € 1 billion per year globally in reduced production, quality and pharmacological treatment costs. A European Consortium, coordinated by LG Sonic, started the LiceSonic Project ...
By LG Sonic
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Young Farmers Remain Concerned About Land Availability
Securing adequate land to grow crops and raise livestock was the top challenge identified again this year in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual outlook survey of participants in the Young Farmers & Ranchers program. That challenge was identified by 22 percent of respondents, followed by economic challenges, particularly profitability, which was identified by 15 percent of the ...
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