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An introduction to the agricultural portfolio Page 3
An introduction to Farmers Guardian Page 4
An introduction to Farmers Guardian continued Page 5
Farmers Guardian features 2013 Page 6
Farmers Guardian special projects Page 7
Farmers Guardian mechanical information Page 8
Farmers Guardian rate card Page 9
An introduction to Dairy Farmer Page 10
An introduction to Dairy Farmer continued Page 11
Dairy Farmer features 2013 Page 12
Dairy Farmer mechanical information Page 13
Dairy Farmer rate card Page 14
Farmers Guardian online Page 15
Online advertising positions Page 16
Other online opportunities Page 17
Other online opportunities continued Page 18
Online technical specifications Page 19
Contact information Page 20
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AGRICULTURE’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
MARCH 2013
DAIRY SPECIAL
Including UK Dairy
Expo preview p27-43
TIME FOR ACTION CELEB CHEF ON HORSE MEAT FALL-OUT p48
By Howard Walsh
ARLA Foods has launched what
it believes is the first milk supply
contract fully compliant with all
aspects of the dairy industry voluntary code of practice.
The announcement prompted other firms, namely Muller
Wiseman and Dairy Crest, to restate their support of the code.
It was also welcomed by farming unions (more on page 11).
Arla pledged it would address
the various points of the code
when its comprehensive ‘milk
sourcing model’ was announced
last September.
The new Arla direct contract
at a current standard litre price
of 30.02ppl is ‘a part of that
overall milk sourcing model’. It
incorporates liquid and compositional variations, a volume
bonus for larger producers, seasonality options and a 12-month
notice period with the threemonth price or contract change
trigger as specified in the code.
It will be available to producers
not already supplying Arla from
March 1, but the company’s notice
to producers remains 12 months.
The new contracts are seen
as an important part of its drive
to secure an additional 500
million litres of milk in the UK.
It means Arla is now able to
recruit via two contracts – the
SIMMENTAL STUNNER 45,000gns at Stirling
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British beef
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Seed sourcing
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MACHINERY
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LIVESTOCK
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Ash Amirahmadi, Arla’s head of
milk and member services, said:
“We believe this contract offers
dairy farmers in England, Scotland and Wales who aren’t
already supplying Arla, a longterm premium milk price.
“Since its launch in September,
there has been plenty of debate
around the code and Arla is fulfilling its commitments by introducing what we believe is the first
fully-compliant supply contract.
“We are also working to ensure all our farmer contracts are
fully compliant with the code.”
The move led Muller Wiseman
to reiterate its position on the voluntary code, claiming all its 1,094
producers were covered by the
code now, and in future.
The processor was also keen to
point out supplying farmers could
resign outwith price or schedule
changes on three months notice,
provided they did not leave during
the autumn trough. Other milk
buyers, it claimed, were maintaining a 12-month notice period outwith price and schedule changes.
Dairy Crest, which moved to a
three-month notice period last
July, said it had been working to
ensure it was compliant with all
aspects of the code.
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Arla Foods Milk Partnership
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said farmers who aspired to be
members of Arla Foods amba
should choose AFMP’s shared
ownership model. The new Arla
direct contract was available for
those who wanted to supply Arla
but preferred direct supply.
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DECISIONS p19-27
Farm chiefs call for
tougher
red meat chain regu
lation
rFarmers ‘let down’
by horse meat scandal
rCalls for industry
crisis summit
By Olivia Midgley
taken our product and
devalued it.”
Mr Mallon said
spent time, effort producers
and money
making sure they
adhered to
farm assurance, but
time for processors it was now
and
to ‘pay and play their retailers
part’.
Farming Minister
David
Heath, who held
talks with the
supermarkets, food
distributors
and devolved administrati
ons
this week, indicated
retailers
could do more.
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First Milk
investment
INDUSTRY chiefs
are calling for
a tighter grip on processors
and
retailers after the
horse meat fiasco laid bare the
‘gaping hole’
in regulation between
the farm Alliance
gate and the supermarket
This week, UK meat shelf. Cumbrian farmer John
Geldard,
plants speaking
were implicated in
independently
the
after the Food Standardsscandal, in his capacity as Nationaland not
Sheep
Agency Association
(FSA) raided units
chairman, called for
in
a
shire and Aberystwyth.West York- new alliance of farming
tions to specifically organisaThe FSA suspended
support the
all
operaGovernment on food
tions at the plants
chain
as
investigations after part of its and ‘make sure they listen issues
to
officers views of
discovered kebabs
core food producers’. the
and
Mr Geldard said:
purporting to be beef burgers
“The horse
were in fact meat
horse.
scandal and lack
consultation in findingof farming
Farm leaders,
solutions
convene in London who will and future-proofing
secure food
summit next week, for a crisis supplies shows existing
said a lack of nication
commuregulation after
between farmers
the
was to blame for the farm gate Government is inadequate.” and
furore.
But a former
National Beef Association
di- entist said the Government scirector Chris Mallon
FSA testing regime
action was needed said urgent had been ‘lacking’
in recent
to address months,
the ‘murkiness’ surrounding
blaming staff cutbacks.
the
Dr Mark Woolfe said
processing industry.
it was no
surprise the horse
Mr Mallon said: “We
meat debacle
make sure the integrityneed to ensued after the
European
of our Commission
product which is
there when it desinewed last year banned
leaves the farm, is still
meat with
it gets to the retailer. there when couple of days’ notice’. only ‘a
At the moHe said the decision
ment this is not happening.
panies sourcing mince saw com“There was a
for value
culture of products
farmers being glad
turn to cheaper altermarkets would sell the super- natives from abroad.
their
produce but now it should
be the
other way around.
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farmers update
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control trials
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harvesters
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Yorks potash
mining project
The proposed partial
ban on three pesticides
Neonicotinoid ban could
be ‘catastrophic’ for UK
in the neonicotinoid
family comes after a
report found they posed
a ‘high risk’ to honey
bees. PICTURE: Tim
Scrivener
rEU wants partial,
not total ban
Safety Agency (Efsa) report
found
Arable farmer and member
seeds treated with neonicotinoid
of look at other chemicals
the NFU combinable crops
insecticides posed a ‘high
board reduce our armoury.” which will cide Action Network (PAN),
risk’ to James Cox, said
any such measure
honey bees in crops producing
discounted the report.
Mr Cox said using
would ‘dramatically’ affect
fewer
nectar and pollen.
PAN
oilseed chemicals in
greater quantities said: policy adviser Nick Mole
honey bees
rape and cereals. And
The chemicals are mainly
“The industry’s defence
used spraying the crops he believes could then pose the issue of
is
to treat seeds prior to sowing
nonsense because it looked
at the early resistance.
in emergence stage
at
the battle against insects
ing neonicotinoids compared usBy Olivia Midgley
Syngenta spokesman
such as the burden on would increase
with
Luke
already stretched Gibbs
aphids, particularly on
oilseed farmers.
said the Efsa conclusions using nothing. Studies from Italy
rape,
have shown there has
maize and cereals. No
EU moves to ban certain
were ‘highly theoretical and
insecti- concerns were
failed in yield, production been no loss
cides due to their impact
highlighted for Implication
to take into account all
or profitabilion bee sugar beet.
s
relevant ty after they
populations could have
banned the use of
studies
as well as independent
Mr Cox said: “Currently,
a potenYesterday (Thursday),
neonicotinoids in maize.”
seed monitoring’.
tially ‘catastrophic’ impact
Euro- treatments
on
Campaigners including Friends
farming industry, accordingthe pean Commissioner for Health operation. are all done in one
Earlier this month, a report
to and Consumers Tonio
If we have to spray the
by of the Earth, welcomed
experts.
EU think-tank the Humboldt
Borg pre- crops after
the prodrilling, there will not
sented a discussion paper
posed ban, with the Soil
This week, the European
Forum
to mem- only be cost
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and timing implica- funded for Food and Agriculture, tion calling it the ‘beginning
mission proposed a partial
meeting of the tions
by Bayer CropScience and
of the
but
end for neonicotinoids’.
on three pesticides in the ban standing committee on pesticides. emissions also unnecessary Syngenta, said a ban
on neonicotineonireleased into the noid
Mr Borg said a partial ban
B&Q and Homebase
cotinoid family – imidacloprid,
seed treatments could reduce
necessary to protect honey was environment.
announced they would pull also
thiamethoxam and clothianidin.
yields by 20 per cent and
bees,
pesti“These insects are not going
cost the cides containing
but added a complete ban
to EU economy up to
It comes after a European
imidacloprid off
was ‘not go away so we
€4.5 billion their shelves,
Food justified’.
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a year.
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would replace a product
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10.01.14
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17.01.14
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24.01.14
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14.02.14
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14.02.14
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22.08.14
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21.02.14
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29.08.14
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19.09.14
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26.09.14
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28.03.14
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26.09.14
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07.03.14
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14.03.14
Materials handling
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11.04.14
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11.04.14
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25.04.14
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31.10.14
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09.05.14
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16.05.14
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07.11.14
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14.11.14
23.05.14
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14.11.14
30.05.14
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21.11.14
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28.11.14
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13.06.14
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20.06.14
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20.06.14
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05.12.14
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REJECTION by the
European
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mittee to look into the re comeffects of
abolishing milk quotas
has ‘disappointed’ Welsh
MEP Jill
Evans.
With quotas due
to be
scrapped in 2015 and
concerned
about the effects on
Welsh dairy
farming, she tabled
amendments to a report by
the agriculture committee on the
future of
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She wanted the European
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they will contest the
NFU communications of the vice-president election.
stood for vice-presidentboard,
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Mrs
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her county and
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Meurig from other
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Mr Brant, an arable
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vice-president in 2012, highlight
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ensuring farmers and
had access to sufficient growers
levels of
labour when the Seasonal
cultural Workers Scheme Agrigoes
next year as a priority.
concern
Welsh dairy farming
would be
hit by the abolition
of
This highlighted the quotas.
cheaper imports and risk of
a Europe
wide decline in raw
Unfair practices
milk prices.
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of an industry
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The Plaid Cymru MEP
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“A report in 2009
so
importan
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suggested wider
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has to be
something which
the risk is
done routinely as
ever present.
There are broadly
of bath
speaking two types
ics
formulation – antibiot
kill the
which specifically
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spirochaete organis
which
skin disinfectants
on the
cleanse everything
tics
skin surface. Antibio
d to
yield this has increase
more in
10% incidence or
many herds.
twins
Most would agree
the dairy
are bad news for
d
cow, with the increase
after
health risks at and
the milk
calving damaging
yield and of course
ty and
increased mortali
calves.
freemartins in the
Some 30 years ago
would
time, which again
sort of
any
be typical of this
miserably to achieve
and
virus sweeping in
improvement.
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of the
damaging the foetus.
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cies were all
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aring
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pregnancies again.
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as
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just
at
was
been
There
to the
Certainly there has
and
tell if there is damage
outbreak
peri-calving disease
will
least one clinical
were developing
calf. The worst thing
dairy
they were more likely
ing
lost
in our practice with
have
techniques for improv
be pregnancies being
g
to be ketotic and
cow
later and
cows scouring, showin
ent
the health of the
and not found till
mastitis in the subsequ
identmilk drop and pyrexia
s time.
preciou
carrying twins by
losing
to be
lactation.
and
to
which is thought
again
ifying them early
A vaccine is likely
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ed with
t
but as yet
possibly associat
we can
adopting differen
become available
for twins and all
in late
and we
Schmallenberg.
sure we
feeding techniques
we have no details,
we
really do is make
the
how
Also on a few farms
nt and
lactation and during
are at a loss to suggest
have good treatme
seen the loss of early
work has
used in
have
be
should
it
calving
if
dry period. This
and
care protocols after
cies in a cluster of
impact pregnan
herds.
been repeated with
the same cattle
to reduce the health
s in
cows at or around
modern cattle genetic
twins.
of
the US and has failed
is
My third problem
It is
Schmallenberg virus.
how
difficult to know
give this
much attention to
not
virus as we still do
or
extent
know the full
disease
scale of any clinical
it may produce.
on
ati
cows
spread or infect
l’ effect and
moisture,
got a have a ‘residua
without slurry or
like to think I have
four
feet clean
can be used every
h and
so keeping cows’
practical approac
part of
weeks or so but skin
and dry is a key
an answer to tackling
have to be
tants
re so
disinfec
exposu
in
reducing the
most diseases I see
cases.
problem
used daily in most
a
of
less
is
My
.
there
cattle practice
So what are the key
first place.
agree I
the
in
usually
will
er?
clients
we
things to rememb
answer
The second thing
lly
especia
do always have an
–
much
■ Treat all cows
rily the
seem unable to do
– but not necessa
The rate
the dry cows.
hear.
about is twinning.
one they want to
product at
cattle
■ Use the right
a few
of twinning in dairy
However, there are
.
less
the right dilution
to be about 5% or
on some
frequently. used
conditions which
but
■ Clean the bath
we have
all cows calving,
if
of
as
seems
for
it
days
solution
for milk
■ Use enough
. The first
with the selection
and
not got a solution
cows
of
number
dermatitis. the
of these is digital
ination.
contam
faecal
affects
This condition now
t depth to
■ Use sufficien
dairy
well above 90% of
the foot.
for 25% of cover
herds accounting
Digital
s in its
all cases of lamenes
dermatitis
and, more
simple skin form
will not
worryingly, the chronic
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Hillsborough research
station
horn form.
t of
There is little prospec
so
eradicating this disease
to
everything is down
are the
control. Foot baths
now for
front line and are
dipping
lameness what teat
is
is for mastitis. This
has to be
something which
the risk is
done routinely as
ever present.
There are broadly
of bath
speaking two types
ics
formulation – antibiot
kill the
which specifically
m or the
spirochaete organis
which
skin disinfectants
the
on
ing
cleanse everyth
tics
skin surface. Antibio
24
DAIRY
FARMER
Use Biotal experti
se for
condition specifi crop and
c additives
Volume 60 Issue
3
Producing enough
quality grass silage
can be
difficult, but using
Biotal forage inoculant
s is one
decision that can
make it easier.
axphast gold® works
quickly on wet grass
silage
to preserve nutrients,
ensuring good intake
and
maximum performa
nce.
axcool gold® has
a unique action which
prevents
dry silage heating
up and moulding
, resulting in
better intake and
productivity.
axphast
BIOTAL
h Concen
Hig
tr
gold
ol
um
v
many herds.
twins
Most would agree
the dairy
are bad news for
d
cow, with the increase
after
health risks at and
the milk
calving damaging
yield and of course
ty and
increased mortali
calves.
freemartins in the
Some 30 years ago
They’ll tell
you when
you’ve got
it right
any
miserably to achieve
improvement.
of the
Increased feeding
during
twin-bearing cow
providing
the dry period by
dense
an increased energy
d
ration actually produce
trying
more problems than
y.
to feed them normall
Pages 32-37
Lo w
I
d to
yield this has increase
more in
10% incidence or
would
time, which again
is
My third problem
sort of
be typical of this
It is
and
Schmallenberg virus.
virus sweeping in
how
The
difficult to know
damaging the foetus.
this
give
to
all
much attention
rDigital dermatitis:
pregnancies were
not
e,
too
virus as we still do
Good footbath techniqu
diagnosed as being
and
the full extent or
cows
dry
know
session
the
er
PD
rememb
small at the
disease
being
scale of any clinical
are
many
ly
rTwins: Early postcurrent
ently
it may produce.
calving checks
lost when subsequ
Check
are
rSchmallenberg:
rechecked. Some
cannot
Outbreak
pregnancies again.
much
progressing but I
been at
There was just as
to the
Certainly there has
and
tell if there is damage
outbreak
peri-calving disease
will
least one clinical
were developing
calf. The worst thing
dairy
they were more likely
ing
lost
in our practice with
have
techniques for improv
be pregnancies being
g
to be ketotic and
and
cow
cows scouring, showin
ent
not found till later
the health of the
subsequ
and
the
in
mastitis
identmilk drop and pyrexia
carrying twins by
losing precious time.
to be
lactation.
and
to
which is thought
again
ifying them early
A vaccine is likely
So it is bad news
ed with
t
but as yet
possibly associat
we can
adopting differen
become available
for twins and all
we
lenberg.
in late
and
ues
Schmal
details,
techniq
no
we
sure
feeding
we have
we
really do is make
the
how
Also on a few farms
nt and
lactation and during
are at a loss to suggest
of early
have good treatme
work has
used in
have seen the loss
calving
dry period. This
and if it should be
care protocols after
cies in a cluster of
impact pregnan
been repeated with
same cattle herds.
reduce the health
the
to
around
in
or
s
cows at
modern cattle genetic
of twins.
the US and has failed
Management
Machinery
Forage kit for
season ahead
FARMER
on
ati
t have
Surprisingly we don’ seases
di
all the answers to
MARCH 2013
e a p p li c a ti o
n
SPECIAL FEATU
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Focus on forage
and grassland
Pages 26-37
RENEWABLES
Potential on-farm
energy investments
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ways
There are easier
hy ruminal flora
to maintain healt
an aid to post
Are you looking for
gement of rumen
therapeutic mana
flora following:-
Upsets?, Metabolic
Ketosis?, Digestive
,
is?, Bloat?, Scour?
Disorders?, Mastit
ing?
Cereal/Protein Poison
Ruminal Stasis?,
Pro-Rumen
L FLORA MAKES A
HEALTHY RUMINA
NEW PRODUCTS
Latest releases to
dairy marketplace the
delivering forage
Pages 48-49
and nutrition techno
Biotal Ltd tel: (029)
2054 7050
CONTENTED COW
the
acts by supporting
(live yeast) which
therapy
Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be used following antimicrobial
stasis.
Pro-Rumen contains
rumen bacteria. Pro-Rumen
bloat, scour and ruminal and to
mastitis, ketosis,
activity of beneficial
after treatment of
for nutritional value
and as an aid to recovery milk powder and fat soluble vitamins
contains
bacteria.
Pro-Rumen also
of beneficial rumen
further aid the management
ART3062
ses vets do
Gloucestershire, confes ent.
Veterinary Group,
l rather than treatm
Watson of the Wood
This month, Chris
ses down to contro
rs, with some disea
not have all the answe
cows
spread or infect
l’ effect and
moisture,
got a have a ‘residua
without slurry or
like to think I have
four
feet clean
can be used every
h and
so keeping cows’
practical approac
part of
weeks or so but skin
and dry is a key
an answer to tackling
to be
disinfectants have
in
g the exposure so
see
I
s
reducin
disease
most
cases.
used daily in most
is less of a problem
there
cattle practice. My
key
So what are the
agree I
in the first place.
er?
clients will usually
we
things to rememb
answer
The second thing
do always have an
– especially
much
■ Treat all cows
rily the
seem unable to do
– but not necessa
The rate
the dry cows.
hear.
about is twinning.
one they want to
product at
cattle
■ Use the right
a few
are
of twinning in dairy
there
er,
Howev
.
5% or less
the right dilution
on some
used to be about
tly.
frequen
conditions which
, but
■ Clean the bath
we have
of all cows calving
days it seems as if
solution for
for milk
■ Use enough
. The first
with the selection
and
not got a solution
number of cows
the
tis.
dermati
of these is digital
ination.
affects faecal contam
This condition now
t depth to
■ Use sufficien
dairy
well above 90% of
the foot.
for 25% of cover
herds accounting
Digital
s in its
all cases of lamenes
itis
dermat
and, more
simple skin form
not
will
worryingly, the chronic
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increases fibre digestibility, which improves forage intake
ensuring more milk from forage.
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Watson of the Wood
This month, Chris
ses down to contro
rs, with some disea
not have all the answe
do
t have
Surprisingly we don’ seases
di
to
s
er
sw
all the an
cows
spread or infect
l’ effect and
moisture,
got a have a ‘residua
without slurry or
like to think I have
four
feet clean
can be used every
h and
so keeping cows’
practical approac
part of
weeks or so but skin
and dry is a key
an answer to tackling
have to be
tants
re so
disinfec
in
reducing the exposu
most diseases I see
daily in most cases.
problem
used
a
of
less
there is
cattle practice. My
So what are the key
I
place.
first
agree
the
in
usually
er?
clients will
things to rememb
second thing we
answer
an
The
have
lly
always
especia
do
–
much
■ Treat all cows
rily the
seem unable to do
– but not necessa
The rate
the dry cows.
hear.
about is twinning.
one they want to
product at
cattle
■ Use the right
a few
of twinning in dairy
However, there are
.
less
the right dilution
to be about 5% or
on some
frequently. used
conditions which
■ Clean the bath
calving, but
have
cows
we
all
if
of
as
days it seems
solution for
milk
■ Use enough
the selection for
. The first
with
and
not got a solution
number of cows
dermatitis. the
of these is digital
ination.
contam
affects faecal
This condition now
t depth to
■ Use sufficien
dairy
well above 90% of
the foot.
for 25% of cover
herds accounting
Digital
s in its
all cases of lamenes
dermatitis
and, more
simple skin form
will not
worryingly, the chronic
I
horn form.
t of
There is little prospec
so
eradicating this disease
to
everything is down
are the
control. Foot baths
now for
front line and are
dipping
lameness what teat
is
is for mastitis. This
has to be
something which
the risk is
done routinely as
ever present.
There are broadly
of bath
speaking two types
ics
formulation – antibiot
kill the
which specifically
m or the
spirochaete organis
which
skin disinfectants
on the
cleanse everything
tics
skin surface. Antibio
14
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DAIRY
FARMER
d to
yield this has increase
more in
10% incidence or
many herds.
twins
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the dairy
are bad news for
d
cow, with the increase
after
health risks at and
milk
the
ng
calving damagi
yield and of course
ty and
increased mortali
calves.
freemartins in the
Some 30 years ago
Hillsborough research
station
would
time, which again
sort of
any
be typical of this
miserably to achieve
and
virus sweeping in
improvement.
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of the
damaging the foetus.
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were all
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ently
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to feed them normall
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sing
pregnancies again.
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as
progres
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been
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to the
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and
tell if there is damage
outbreak
peri-calving disease
will
least one clinical
were developing
calf. The worst thing
dairy
they were more likely
ing
lost
in our practice with
have
techniques for improv
be pregnancies being
g
to be ketotic and
cow
later and
cows scouring, showin
ent
the health of the
and not found till
mastitis in the subsequ
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time.
s
preciou
carrying twins by
losing
to be
lactation.
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to
which is thought
again
ifying them early
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ed with
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we can
adopting differen
become available
for twins and all
in late
and we
Schmallenberg.
sure we
feeding techniques
we have no details,
we
really do is make
the
how
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nt and
lactation and during
are at a loss to suggest
have good treatme
the loss of early
has
in
seen
work
used
have
be
This
calving
dry period.
and if it should
care protocols after
cies in a cluster of
impact pregnan
herds.
been repeated with
the same cattle
to reduce the health
s in
cows at or around
modern cattle genetic
of twins.
the US and has failed
is
My third problem
It is
Schmallenberg virus.
how
difficult to know
give this
much attention to
not
virus as we still do
or
know the full extent
disease
scale of any clinical
it may produce.
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DAIRY SPECIAL
Latest on turnout, herd
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PRECISION FARMING EFFICIENCY BOOSTING KIT ON SHOW p26
Criminal gangs cash in as 200
tractors stolen in two months
rTractors shipped
to eastern Europe
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Green belt
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rBetter security
urged at farm level
ARABLE
By Olivia Midgley
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Horticulture
partnership
GANGS are pocketing millions of
pounds as part of an organised
crime ring which is seeing highvalue tractors from Britain’s farms
‘disappear without a trace’.
Criminals are defying the law
by using fake documents to cash
in on overseas markets, with
Poland being the gangs’ destination of choice.
Northern Cyprus, Bulgaria
and Lithuania – renowned for
their lack of legal jurisdiction –
are also hotspots, according to
experts from the Association of
Chief Police Officers vehicle
crime intelligence service and
rural insurer NFU Mutual.
More than 200 tractors, valued at more than £25,000 each,
were stolen from UK farms in
December 2012 and January
2013, with figures for February
expected to continue the upward curve. This was a 35 per
cent spike on previous months.
NFU Mutual’s vehicle security
expert Clive Harris, who works
closely with port police, said the
problem was spiralling.
He said: “The sudden increase
in farm vehicle theft is extremely concerning. In the past we
have recovered vehicles from
Poland as the market is so
strong for stolen tractors, but at
the moment they are just completely disappearing.”
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IN YOUR FIELD
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Farmers are being warned about securing their machinery after more than 200 tractors ‘disappeared’ in two months. PICTURE: John Eveson
The worrying trend follows a
dip in thefts last year.
The Metropolitan Police’s
plant and agricultural national
intelligence unit said thefts had
dropped by almost 50 per cent in
the 12 months to June 2012, after
a spike in 2010 when insurance
claims hit the £10 million mark.
“Tractor theft is very much in
vogue again and where they are
going, we don’t know,” added Mr
Harris. “We need people to be
aware the problem has not gone
away but has in fact come back
with a vengeance.”
Shipped out
He said tractors and telehandlers,
particularly those with loaders,
command a high price overseas
and are often loaded onto curtainsided lorries before being driven
straight to ports and shipped out
within a matter of hours.
Mr Harris said the sheer num-
ber of lorries arriving at ports
meant it would be ‘impossible’ to
check every single vehicle.
Lower-value tractors and allterrain vehicles are often
stripped down before the parts
are shipped out and sold abroad.
The insurer said on-farm
security was key to tackling the
growing problem.
John Deere said every new tractor it sells in the UK and Ireland
is fitted with the Construction and
Agricultural Equipment Security
and Registration Scheme
(CESAR) datatag security system,
as well as an immobiliser system
where the key has a transponder unique to each tractor.
NFU Mutual urged people to fit
CESAR marking to farm vehicles
and consider immobilisers and
tracker devices; always remove
the tractor key; physically
padlock or chain ATVs and record
machinery serial numbers.
UK DAIRY EXPO FULL REPORT & PICTURES p30-31
STEVE HEARD,
LEICESTERSHIRE
“A continued
relentless invasion
of pigeons seem to
have staked claim
to all of my oilseed
rape land”
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