Herdsmen Ask Eu for Rethink On Sheep Tags Farming

The Herald (September 21, 2005)

Author: Dan Buglass

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Summary

NFU Scotland has called on the Scottish Executive and the European Union to recognise the practicalities of sheep tagging after Brussels issued its latest ruling on record-keeping.

Scotland has eight million sheep, of which around 3.2 million are breeding ewes. Sheep farms here are, on average, the largest in the EU, and the original proposals from Brussels that each animal should have a separate ear tag number were viewed as unworkable, especially under hill conditions.

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Herdsmen Ask Eu for Rethink On Sheep Tags Farming

In July the executive, following lobbying from the industry, secur...

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