Sources & References

• Livestock News Archive

  Both upland and lowland farms have been selected. The first focus farm meetings will be held in Callington, Cornwall, on 28th May and Dorchester, Dorset, on 5th June. As well as the activity on the focus farms, Eblex will be running a number of sheep health workshops designed to help farmers focus on issues on their own farms. These sessions will cover health planning, lameness, infertility and scab. See Eblex’s events schedule here. … Phil Stocker, NSA Chief Executive, says: *“We have been...

• Farmed and Dangerous: Tale of Healthy, Shropshire Sheep Being Killed by the CFIA

  From woolly sheep and bucolic farm life to criminal charges and gag orders. I look around some days and wonder how I got here from there. 2015 After a court date in March, I commented to my son on how the average murder trial would rarely amount to ten thousand pages of disclosure, yet the government's sheepnapping case will be well over that number. "This IS a murder trial," he said. "A mass murder." He's referring to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) killing my rare, very healthy...

• Shropshire Sheep – a sustained Watchlist success story - RBST

  Thursday 17th October 2024

• Conservation - Shropshire Sheep

  What Is a Heritage Breed? Heritage breeds are traditional livestock breeds raised by farmers in the past, before the rise of industrial agriculture (factory farming) caused a drastic reducti…

• Shropshire farmer urging owners to keep dogs on leads over the ...

  A farmer in Shropshire is urging dog owners to keep their pets on leads whilst...

• Shropshire Sheep

  Save Our Shropshires—Less than 100 Heritage breeding animals left in Canada