By Holly Cheever, DVM, reprinted from Action for Animals (USA) I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heart-breaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients called me one day with a puzzling mystery: his Brown Swiss…
Continue readingThe way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology – farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things. Global grains surpluses are now so great that half of them are fed wastefully to livestock, with an increasing amount turned into biofuels. In early January, Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey launched the ‘Manifesto for a new agriculture’ at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme was ‘agro-ecology’…
Continue readingArticle from the Ecologist: http://www.theecologist.org/ The health of our soils is more important now than ever, says the Soil Association’s Helen Browning – especially with the challenges that climate change will bring … We are destroying soils worldwide ten times faster than nature can restore them. As a farmer, my foremost responsibility is to protect and enhance the soil in my care. It can take more than 500 years to generate an inch of…
Continue readingSeymour is a bull who was born on 13th December 2012. He is Tilly’s son and it virtually all black apart from a little white tuft on his head and on his underbelly. He is very shy, but also very handsome. Once Seymour had been weaned off milk at about 3 months, he went through a difficult period when he got ringworm. Dermatophytosis or ringworm is a clinical condition caused by fungal infection of the skin, leaving lesions…
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