FARM NEWS 5
• APR/MAY 2019
£6m allocated to vets to
contain cattle disease
Nearly £6 million in funding has been allocated
to vets in England as part of a campaign to
tackle a highly contagious cattle disease.
THE £5.7 million Stamp It Out initiative was
‘ To have allocated
launched by the Department for Environ-
all of the money
ment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) last
only six months into
summer in a bid to eradicate Bovine Vial
Diarrhoea (BVD).
delivery is fantastic
Within six months the project – which is be-
ing delivered by SAC Consulting, part of Scot-
their vet’s time to investigate the disease both
land’s Rural College (SRUC) – has recruited 120 on a one-to-one basis or through a series of
veterinary practices across England to offer
cluster meetings with like-minded keepers.
the programme to farmers on the ground.
They can also access £61.80 for preliminary
“To have allocated all of the money only
testing work, and up to £440 where there is
six months into delivery is fantastic,” said
evidence of persistently infected animals.
Neil Carter of SAC Consulting.
Vets who have signed up to the scheme
“It shows that the industry has a real
have made a commitment to engage 8,000
desire to control and eradicate the disease
farmers in active BVD control by 2020 –
from our national herd.”
with 3,000 signed up so far.
BVD costs UK farmers an estimated £61
A further 2,000 farmers have asked to join
million a year in lost performance. Under
the BVDFree England initiative, an industry-led
the Stamp It Out scheme, funded by the
scheme which will take the momentum gen-
Rural Development Programme for England
erated by Stamp It Out and continue with the
(RDPE), farmers
can
access
up
to
£530
of
ambition to eradicate BVD in England.
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Northern acres
in demand as
farmland remains
in short supply
LAST year brought a -13 per cent decrease
in the amount of farmland marketed in the
North of England compared to 2017.
According to the latest Farmland Market
Spotlight from Savills, 21,400 acres were
marketed in the region during 2018, against
24,700 acres the year before. This account-
ed for 16 per cent of supply in England
where there was an overall rise of 31 per
cent, an unusual increase partly down to
two particularly large farmland sales which
had a substantial effect due to the overall
low volume marketed across the UK.
The North was the only region to see a
fall, resulting in few opportunities for buy-
ers and those seeking to expand. As a re-
sult, demand remained strong for most land
types with neighbours in particular seizing
the increasingly rare chance to buy.
‘ the North was the only
region to see a fall ’
During 2018 the average value of prime ar-
able land in the North of England remained
stable at £9,800 per acre, compared with
a decrease across Great Britain of -2% to
average £8,760 per acre. The average value
of grade 3 livestock land in the North also
remained stable at £4,800 per acre.
www.savills.com
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