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12/10/2010 Beef South West Generates Renewed Optimism in the Beef Sector Region: National BEEF SOUTH WEST GENERATES RENEWED OPTIMISM IN THE BEEF SECTOR Beef South West 2010 on September 29th attracted over 2000 beef producers, with exhibitors reporting brisk trade, enthusiasm and investment in the industry, reflected by the large number of young farmers and beef producers visiting for the first time. Event organisers, National Beef... read more

11/10/2010 CTS Self Service Line Now Available! Region: National Report your cattle information using a telephone Call Now on 0845 011 1212 To use the CTS Self Service Line, you need to have a County Parish Holding (CPH) number registered with us on the Cattle Tracing System (CTS) along with the telephone number that you will be calling from. The service will conﬁrm each successful transaction. You will b... read more

11/10/2010 Press Release - Processors should show supply contract imagination and secure a life raft of future beef finishers Region: National Processors should show supply contract imagination and secure a life raft of future beef finishers. The National Beef Association would like more processing companies to contribute to future beef supply stability by offering cost based, supply contracts, that can capture a wide spread of well organised, professional, feeders, able to turn out l... read more

30/09/2010 Press Release - Cash Crisis for Beef Producers Region: Scotland Cash Crisis for Beef Producers. Cash link between grain harvest and suckler trade must not be broken, warns NBA Scotland’s chairman, Hamish McBean. The Scottish Government would be well advised to join other EU members whose Governments have negotiated an advance on 2010’s SFP, normally due in December. The money is needed now, to alleviate th... read more

30/09/2010 Press Release - Cash Crisis for Beef Producers Region: National Cash Crisis for Beef Producers. Cash link between grain harvest and suckler trade must not be broken, warns NBA Scotland’s chairman, Hamish McBean. The Scottish Government would be well advised to join other EU members whose Governments have negotiated an advance on 2010’s SFP, normally due in December. The money is needed now, to alleviate th... read more

22/09/2010 Press Release - Test now for BVD Pls - then send them to the abattoir, says NBA Region: Scotland Test now for BVD PIs – then send them to the abattoir, says NBA. The National Beef Association is firmly behind government plans to eradicate BVD in Scotland and hopes the entire cattle industry, including veterinary practices and farmers, show enthusiasm for the national effort. It also urges all herd owners who take advantage of the voluntary sc... read more

22/09/2010 Press Release - Test now for BVD Pls - then send them to the abattoir, says NBA Region: National Test now for BVD PIs – then send them to the abattoir, says NBA. The National Beef Association is firmly behind government plans to eradicate BVD in Scotland and hopes the entire cattle industry, including veterinary practices and farmers, show enthusiasm for the national effort. It also urges all herd owners who take advantage of the voluntary sc... read more

21/09/2010 Press Release - All Welsh cattle farmers should support Government plans to introduce pilot badger controls Region: National All Welsh cattle farmers should support Government plans to introduce pilot badger controls. The National Beef Association unreservedly backs the latest effort of the Welsh Assembly Government to begin a five year cull of badgers in a notorious TB hot spot in West Wales. It urges every cattle farmer in the Principality to respond positively t... read more

21/09/2010 Press Release - Innovatory US retail attitudes ignored by offhand UK supermarkets Region: National Innovatory US retail attitudes ignored by offhand UK supermarkets. The National Beef Association wants the UK’s multiple retailers, and the cattle processors who supply them, to compare their off-handed approach to increasing the value of the beef carcase with an admirable, all-industry, effort similar to what is taking place in the United States... read more

13/09/2010 Press Release - Britain's landscape threatened by cheap supermarket beef Region: National Britain’s beautiful landscape threatened by cheap supermarket beef. What right do supermarkets have to jeopardise rural livelihoods, and the preservation of the UK’s beautiful landscapes, by offering food items that are sold for less than their cost of production? This important question is being asked by the National Beef Association which is ... read more

06/09/2010 Press Release - More effort on exports will help everyone in the beef sector in business Region: National More effort on exports will help keep everyone in the beef sector in business. The National Beef Association is urging more processors to make new efforts to develop the export market – and in so doing rescue themselves, and others in the beef sector, from avoidable long term supply problems created by the routine under pricing of prime cattle.... read more

27/08/2010 Welfare of animals during transport Region: National Main Guidance » Changes to UK procedures relating to Regulation 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations. Road Vehicle (and Container) Certification in the UK » Process for the approval of road vehicles and containers subject to the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals d... read more

26/08/2010 Press Release - Beef retailing in supermarkets in lazy, dismally unimaginative, and depressing Region: National Beef retailing in supermarkets is lazy, dismally unimaginative, and depressing. Multiple retailers must be shocked out of their unbelievably lazy approach to beef otherwise many of their customers will soon be unable to buy home produced cuts when they want them. “Supermarkets are held to be hugely efficient, forward thinking, operations but the... read more

19/08/2010 Press Release - Christopher Thomas-Everard ends two year term as NBA Board Chairman Region: National Christopher Thomas-Everard ends two year term as National Beef Association Board Chairman. The NBA's national Chairman, Christopher Thomas-Everard, ended a successful, two year term at the head of the organisation yesterday. He is replaced by Oisin Murnion who over the past two years has been the... read more

16/08/2010 Press Release - FSA must not block food products from cattle with a cloned grandparent any longer - says NBA Region: National FSA must not block food products from cattle with a cloned grandparent any longer – says NBA. The National Beef Association has called on the UK’s Food Standards Agency to fall in with the rest of the European Union and allow meat, milk, and other food products taken from the offspring of cloned livestock access to the mainstream wholesale and r... read more

16/08/2010 Press Release - Limousin Semen exported to Czech Republic & Italy Region: National LIMOUSIN SEMEN EXPORTED TO CZECH REPUBLIC & ITALY Semen from five Limousin bulls in all has been exported to the Czech Republic, with a separate order sent to Italy, following orders generated through the e-commerce Semenstore.co.uk. The order to Czech Republic is the first made by Semenstore to Eastern Europe and follows an enquiry through the ... read more

06/08/2010 Press Release - Limousin Society announces major new herd health policy at pedigree sales Region: National LIMOUSIN SOCIETY ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW HERD HEALTH POLICY AT PEDIGREE SALES In a major extension to its herd health policies, the British Limousin Cattle Society (BLCS) has announced that as from the 1st May 2011, herds selling at nominated premier Collective Society Sales will have to be members of, and adhering to, the terms of a CHeCS licence... read more

04/08/2010 Press Release - Pedigree cattle with cloned background must carry cloning registration certificate Region: National Pedigree cattle with cloned background must carry cloning information on registration certificate. The National Beef Association has called on everyone with a stake in the UK beef industry, including dairy farmers who cull out cows and bulls, to do all they can to make sure they do not sell animals with cloned origins into the beef processing and... read more

03/08/2010 Press Release TB or not TB Region: National TB or not TB? – MQ answers the question!! The first TB calf collection of its kind in the country was held in Wiltshire last week by the UK’s largest calf marketing company – Meadow Quality Limited. It was a massive breakthrough for the industry and demonstrates both the hard work that Meadow Quality has invested on behalf of its customers and t... read more

02/08/2010 Press Release - NBA will support VIA installation in NI only if 100 per cent DARD scrutiny is quaranteed Region: Northern Ireland NBA will support VIA installation in NI only if 100 per cent DARD scrutiny is guaranteed – and adjustments to payment grid are made too. The National Beef Association will work with the DARD, LMC, NIMEA and the meat factories, to make sure that when VIA (video image analysis) classification machines are installed in Northern Ireland they deliver... read more

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