Indeed. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who is one of the leading proponents of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill. I look forward to working with him to get that proposed legislation through Parliament.
I want other hon. Members to be able to speak, so I will just briefly say...
Indeed. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who is one of the leading proponents of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill. I look forward to working with him to get that proposed legislation through Parliament.
I want other hon. Members to be able to speak, so I will just briefly say...
I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) on securing the debate.
A belated announcement this morning from Robert Wiseman Dairies that it will increase the farm-gate price to 29p a litre, as well as use the new voluntary code of practice as a framework, is...
I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) on securing the debate.
A belated announcement this morning from Robert Wiseman Dairies that it will increase the farm-gate price to 29p a litre, as well as use the new voluntary code of practice as a framework, is...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I am absolutely delighted that so many Members have chosen to take part in this debate. I am a new Member—I was elected just two and a half years ago—and during the time that I have been here, I...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I am absolutely delighted that so many Members have chosen to take part in this debate. I am a new Member—I was elected just two and a half years ago—and during the time that I have been here, I...
I welcome the new Minister to his post and wish him well in his efforts to save the UK’s dairy industry. His predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for South East Cambridgeshire (Mr Paice), fought hard for farmers and has our thanks and respect.
People pick up milk from the...
I welcome the new Minister to his post and wish him well in his efforts to save the UK’s dairy industry. His predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for South East Cambridgeshire (Mr Paice), fought hard for farmers and has our thanks and respect.
People pick up milk from the...
It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts, although I must confess that, with the new technology here, this debate has sometimes felt as though we were participating in “Just a Minute”.
I thank the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) and my hon. Friend...
It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts, although I must confess that, with the new technology here, this debate has sometimes felt as though we were participating in “Just a Minute”.
I thank the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) and my hon. Friend...
I have waited two and a half years for this moment. It is really sad that, as a nation of tea drinkers, we cannot organise a fair price for the milk that goes into it. Even more sad is the fact that in 2003 and 2004, we compiled a Select...
I have waited two and a half years for this moment. It is really sad that, as a nation of tea drinkers, we cannot organise a fair price for the milk that goes into it. Even more sad is the fact that in 2003 and 2004, we compiled a Select...
In the short time I have left, I thank everyone for their contributions this afternoon. There have been more than 30 contributions, which shows the strength of feeling across the country. I will not enter into whose milk is the best, whose cream is the best or anything else, but...
In the short time I have left, I thank everyone for their contributions this afternoon. There have been more than 30 contributions, which shows the strength of feeling across the country. I will not enter into whose milk is the best, whose cream is the best or anything else, but...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what assessment her Department has made of the effect of mastitis in cow herds;
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what assessment her Department has made of the effect of mastitis in cow herds;
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Mastitis is the most common disease of dairy cows and involuntary culling due to mastitis is a major cost to the dairy industry, as was highlighted in the Farm Animal Welfare Council's 2009 Opinion on the Welfare of the Dairy Cow.
The dairy industry has established the Cattle Health and Welfare Group, which includes representatives from DEFRA and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA). The Group has four key priorities, one of which is the dairy cow welfare strategy which was launched in August 2010 with support of the whole dairy supply chain. The strategy is aiming to improve recognition, treatment, prevention and control of mastitis and expand the excellent work of DairyCo and its Mastitis Control Initiative to reduce levels of mastitis. The strategy's first progress report published in September last year reported the incidence rate of cows affected by clinical mastitis (expressed as the proportion of cows affected) reduced by 7.8% over the 12 months to June 2011. The AHVLA provides a diagnostic service for diseases, including mastitis and maintains a database of submissions and diagnosis as part of its surveillance remit. A summary of its analysis is published annually.
DEFRA's cattle welfare code provides farmers with good husbandry advice based on best practice and includes guidance on mastitis. Over a number of years ADAS, on behalf of DEFRA, has provided comprehensive welfare advice through a variety of media for farmers around the country to encourage good welfare, in an effort to reduce the incidence of mastitis in cow herds. The programme has included advice on 'Reducing injuries
to Dairy Cows', 'Milking Management and the Mastitis Management Action Plan' and more recently 'Breeding Dairy cows for Longevity'.
(2) what advice her Department is providing to farmers on tackling mastitis in cow herds.
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Huw Irranca-Davies:
(2) what advice her Department is providing to farmers on tackling mastitis in cow herds.
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Huw Irranca-Davies:
Mastitis is the most common disease of dairy cows and involuntary culling due to mastitis is a major cost to the dairy industry, as was highlighted in the Farm Animal Welfare Council's 2009 Opinion on the Welfare of the Dairy Cow.
The dairy industry has established the Cattle Health and Welfare Group, which includes representatives from DEFRA and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA). The Group has four key priorities, one of which is the dairy cow welfare strategy which was launched in August 2010 with support of the whole dairy supply chain. The strategy is aiming to improve recognition, treatment, prevention and control of mastitis and expand the excellent work of DairyCo and its Mastitis Control Initiative to reduce levels of mastitis. The strategy's first progress report published in September last year reported the incidence rate of cows affected by clinical mastitis (expressed as the proportion of cows affected) reduced by 7.8% over the 12 months to June 2011. The AHVLA provides a diagnostic service for diseases, including mastitis and maintains a database of submissions and diagnosis as part of its surveillance remit. A summary of its analysis is published annually.
DEFRA's cattle welfare code provides farmers with good husbandry advice based on best practice and includes guidance on mastitis. Over a number of years ADAS, on behalf of DEFRA, has provided comprehensive welfare advice through a variety of media for farmers around the country to encourage good welfare, in an effort to reduce the incidence of mastitis in cow herds. The programme has included advice on 'Reducing injuries
to Dairy Cows', 'Milking Management and the Mastitis Management Action Plan' and more recently 'Breeding Dairy cows for Longevity'.
Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker, on a subject—the British dairy industry—hugely important to my constituency and, I contend, to our nation. I want to speak in particular about the crisis currently engulfing it.
I have always appreciated the importance of dairying. My first job, for the...
Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker, on a subject—the British dairy industry—hugely important to my constituency and, I contend, to our nation. I want to speak in particular about the crisis currently engulfing it.
I have always appreciated the importance of dairying. My first job, for the...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on raising what is a vital issue to the dairy industry. I recently met Roberta Parsons of Manor House farm in Brogden, in my constituency, which is a small farm with only 140 cows. Does he agree that it is the smallest farmers who are...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on raising what is a vital issue to the dairy industry. I recently met Roberta Parsons of Manor House farm in Brogden, in my constituency, which is a small farm with only 140 cows. Does he agree that it is the smallest farmers who are...
I was expecting at least one further subject to be brought up during the debate. [Interruption.] That, like many other wonderful speeches, will be consigned to the filing cabinet of those never to be delivered in this Chamber.
I hope that the House will forgive me if I devote most of...
I was expecting at least one further subject to be brought up during the debate. [Interruption.] That, like many other wonderful speeches, will be consigned to the filing cabinet of those never to be delivered in this Chamber.
I hope that the House will forgive me if I devote most of...
Although it is tempting to agree with my hon. Friend, there is quite a long way to go on Second Reading, but I certainly feel that there are straws in the wind.
I think that there is plenty we can do to reform the other place. My right hon. and learned...
Although it is tempting to agree with my hon. Friend, there is quite a long way to go on Second Reading, but I certainly feel that there are straws in the wind.
I think that there is plenty we can do to reform the other place. My right hon. and learned...
• The dairy industry has suffered from low milk prices for several years. In November 2010, the President of the NFU said that the UK dairy industry risked becoming unsustainable, unless action was taken. However, an EU report in November 2010 was optimistic about prospects for the EU dairy industry over the next ten years.
• Further price cuts in July 2012 will leave many farmers losing money on each pint of milk sold.
• Many dairy farmers have left the industry, but those who remain have increased their herds and productivity so that the implications for the longer-term level of output remain unclear.
• Many farmers blame their low prices on the way that four large supermarkets dominate the grocery market.
• In 2009, several EU agriculture ministers deplored the unprofitability of the dairy industry and pressed the European Commission to take action. The EU Dairy Fund was introduced in 2010.
• Another note covers statistics; Dairy Industry: Statistics (SN/SG/2721). Further information about dairy industry statistics is available from Defra webpage: UK milk prices and composition of milk and DairyCo, a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board: Dairy Statistics: an Insider's Guide
• Another note – The Groceries Code Adjudicator (SN6124) covers the proposed introduction of a grocery ombudsman.
• Two major factors affecting dairy farmers are covered in separate notes Badger Culling (SN/SC/5873); Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (SN/SC/4552).
• The dairy industry has suffered from low milk prices for several years. In November 2010, the President of the NFU said that the UK dairy industry risked becoming unsustainable, unless action was taken. However, an EU report in November 2010 was optimistic about prospects for the EU dairy industry...
I, too, have a taxi story, following the one from the hon. Member for North Dorset (Mr Walter). My taxi story started in Diyarbakir in the south-east of Turkey some years ago, when I was going to the very south-east of the country to look at the Ilusu dam area...
I, too, have a taxi story, following the one from the hon. Member for North Dorset (Mr Walter). My taxi story started in Diyarbakir in the south-east of Turkey some years ago, when I was going to the very south-east of the country to look at the Ilusu dam area...
My Lords, although it is not a formal interest, I want to say that I am a member of the Watford Friends of Salfeet, an informal gathering of concerned residents in and around Watford, who have been working with the Salfeet municipality on the West Bank for the last five...
My Lords, although it is not a formal interest, I want to say that I am a member of the Watford Friends of Salfeet, an informal gathering of concerned residents in and around Watford, who have been working with the Salfeet municipality on the West Bank for the last five...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey)on securing this timely and important debate on rail services and infrastructure in the East Anglian region. She has clearly outlined the case for rail investment throughout the...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey)on securing this timely and important debate on rail services and infrastructure in the East Anglian region. She has clearly outlined the case for rail investment throughout the...
I apologise, but I cannot, as I have to allow time for the Minister to respond.
There are still problems: fuel is still at around £1.30 a litre, which is unsustainable. As the RAC has said, duty revenues are shrinking every year, as people are driven off the roads. We must...
I apologise, but I cannot, as I have to allow time for the Minister to respond.
There are still problems: fuel is still at around £1.30 a litre, which is unsustainable. As the RAC has said, duty revenues are shrinking every year, as people are driven off the roads. We must...
My Lords, I am delighted to take this opportunity to speak today about Britain’s best building. I agree with a great deal of what the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, said, with the exception of his very touching, if ultimately misguided, conviction that Lincoln Cathedral is the fairest in the country....
My Lords, I am delighted to take this opportunity to speak today about Britain’s best building. I agree with a great deal of what the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, said, with the exception of his very touching, if ultimately misguided, conviction that Lincoln Cathedral is the fairest in the country....
My Lords, I am grateful for that intervention, and no doubt we shall come on to discuss the climate of fear. The concern of the National Farmers’ Union is a pretty difficult issue because very few farmers are direct suppliers to supermarkets and so they are not covered by the...
My Lords, I am grateful for that intervention, and no doubt we shall come on to discuss the climate of fear. The concern of the National Farmers’ Union is a pretty difficult issue because very few farmers are direct suppliers to supermarkets and so they are not covered by the...
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