Gareth Enticott 🏴
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Now over 1 million views of my film of Ethel, the winning Huntaway at the Bark Up during the NZ Sheepdog Trial championships
instagram.com
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This campaign gets to feature in the final chapter of my book on sheepdogs. Gotta wonder, though, whether 'save our sheepdogs' would have more emotional pull on the public.
In case you missed it, here is our Save Our Sheep campaign video. Watch with sound on and see if you recognise the voice! 🔉 🔉 🔉 .
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New paper on biosecurity and TB out now in @Vet_Record We assessed the evidence on biosecurity effectiveness, and implementation rates as recorded in the Disease Report Form that is completed after a TB breakdown.
bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Background Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a burden to cattle farming in Great Britain. Poor biosecurity has been identified as contributing to the epidemic. Methods We conducted a systematic review o...
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Advice given to farmers in 1895 about managing bovine TB
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New restrictions to carbon farming / tree planting on agricultural land in NZ announced
rnz.co.nz
Farming groups and rural communities have been raising concerns over forestry conversions for years.
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When Foot and Mouth Disease was sweeping across Scotland and Northumberland in the 1920s, one man wrote to the agricultural press with the solution: it was down to tramps
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Looking forward to reading @PeterGluckman’s take on the decision to defund the social sciences and humanities in NZ
beehive.govt.nz
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and...
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Found the solution to TB (and Johnes) from the 1920s in and old farming magazine. Not peer reviewed but should be OK, yeah?
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I doubt @secondtierpod or Ollie Tanner @CardiffCityFC have ever featured in an academic presentation on agriculture and livestock production, but it happened today! Audience loved it!.
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Unlikely connection. Went to Paris to a workshop organised by @INRAE_France on livestock production / French farmers turn up to @INRAE_France to protest by building a wall around it and dumping sheeps wool and manure.
thelocal.fr
French farmers blocked off entrances to two public buildings in Paris on Thursday in protest at "constraints" imposed by regulatory agencies - the latest direct action in a series of increasingly...
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Fascinating talk at the Producing Livestock conference today on the computerisation of agriculture and livestock disease by @abiwoods3 & @ProfKarenSayer. That looks like a ZX Spectrum in the picture!
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Instructresses in dairying and poultry at the West of Scotland Agricultural College (forerunner of @SRUC) in 1916.
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Some fantastic pictures of farming in mid/north Wales, inc @RhidianGlyn & others
theguardian.com
Photographic reportage exploring the traditions, life and history of upland farmers in Wales, and the modern forces that threaten their generational way of life
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Monday morning update from the Taff Trail at Blackweir. Top gate of Bute park locked @cardiffcouncil & loads of mud in tunnel under A48 but otherwise all ok #tafftrail
Radyr weir and the taff trail, Sunday 2pm. At least the tree trunk balancing on top of the weir for the last 5 years has finally gone @ILovesTheDiff @ceritheviking
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Radyr weir and the taff trail, Sunday 2pm. At least the tree trunk balancing on top of the weir for the last 5 years has finally gone @ILovesTheDiff @ceritheviking
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Visited the statue of Jonas Webb, an early developer of Southdown sheep, and one of the few (only?) statues of farmers in the UK - as described in J.A. Scott Watson's book 'Great Farmers'.
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Saving this for my next lecture on good & real farmers, and symbolic capital. But clearly, real farmers wear Kaiwaka these days 😉
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Former Defra Chief Science Advisor Ian Boyd's new book "Science and Politics" argues that science is on tap for ideological misuse, and describes his experience of working with the science of bovine TB. Review here:
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