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Renowned animal behaviorist Dr Temple Grandin, the author and expert on modern methods of livestock handling, has long advised the industry on low-stress handling of cattle. This has improved animal welfare and productivity and applies to all herding animals. The basics come down to understanding what a cow’s flight zone is, as well as the point of balance. If you are in a field and move towards the cow, you’ll know…
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New Zealand is one farm away from obliterating mycoplasma bovis disease, a painful cattle disease that plagues the farming industry. Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor said that only one farm still had to wipe out this cattle disease, but 271 farms have been successful at eradicating it entirely. Cattle in the US and Europe also contract the infection, which can cause painful conditions such as mastitis, pneumonia, and arthritis. New Zealand…
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As another vessel authorised to transport livestock enters the dry dock, European customers have no choice but to wait for their Irish calf exports to cross the water from Ireland to France. The Stena Horizon, from Stena Line, has already been in the dry dock for around five weeks. Now it’s the turn of Irish Ferries’ WB Yeats. Routine services don’t always go according to plan. However, the vessel is…
Children who love rural life can get nasty farmyard germs from direct contact with lambs or calves, warns Dr Catherine Conlon, author and senior medical officer at St Finbarr’s Hospital in Cork. Even if the animals look healthy and their environment is clean, farmyard germs exist in them and their surroundings. The HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) recently shared an alert to this effect. This follows an increase in…
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The European Commission is expected to propose that farms with 100 cattle or more will require permits, as a part of a major review of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). Ireland Midlands North-West MEP Colm Markey has raised his concern, saying he is “alarmed” by the proposal. He adds that “it would directly impact family farms, which are not of industrial scale and do little to address the problem.” The permit system already…
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