NEW Zealand lamb can travel thousands of food miles and still be better for the environment than Welsh lamb, researchers have claimed. Each of the supermarkets runs its own abattoir, so if you sell your lamb to Tesco, you have to send your lamb to Tesco s abattoir, even if you pass several local abattoirs on the way. The study calculated 688kg of CO2 is emitted per tonne of carcass, through the lamb production process in New Zealand, compared to 2,849. As a result, the meat picks up a huge...

Blackberries were threatening to overrun the farm she'd just bought, and she wanted goats to help clear them. Then, at an auction where she was looking for chickens, she realized many goats were being sold for meat. Friends from Maryland come every year to have their family Christmas-card photo taken with the goats because they fell in love with them on a visit, she says. Then, one rainy night, a friend called to say two goats had been abandoned at a feed store in Renton. It's a "goat...

NZPA . Friday, 8 June 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say Top officials from Meat and Wool New Zealand are dashing to Britain for special talks with farmer representatives there in the wake of rising concern over a flood of New Zealand lamb into British supermarkets. NZPA . Friday, 8 June 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say Top officials from Meat...

There is no cure for this highly infectious condition, which was first detected in the UK in the late 1980s, the likely vectors being a consignment of goats imported from Germany. The next step is to enrol with the SAC's Sheep and Goat Health Scheme secretariat and arrange with the farm veterinary surgeon to collect the first blood samples and undertake a clinical inspection of the sheep. CLA, in common with scrapie, is not one of those diseases that many farmers, especially if they are...

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Bruce Pheasant has been raising sheep and lambs since 1985 -- part of a family tradition that goes back to his grandfather s sheep operation in 1890. It is an article of faith within the sheep industry that compound 1080 (sodium monoflouroacetate), a canid-selective poison, was the most effective and economical weapon against coyotes, until the use of poisonous baits for predator control was banned in 1972. This is what I love to do, Pheasant said, referring to the positive side of raising...