Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

12 November 2010

Shepherd's Notebook - A new test to detect scrapie

Shepherd's Notebook is a blog for sheep and goat producers and anyone else interested in small ruminants. Postings are by Susan Schoenian, Sheep & Goat Specialist for University of Maryland Extension (UME).

This week she writes about a new test to detect scrapie discovered by scientists at Iowa State University.

11 November 2010

Farmers Guardian: Scotland to set up sheep database

SCOTLAND is to be the first UK country to implement a real-time EID database for sheep movements, reducing the amount of paperwork for farmers, markets and processors.