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The British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) is the organisation responsible for maintaining a database of all bovine animals in Great Britain; Northern Ireland has a separate database maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. It was established in the wake of the mad cow disease crisis in the UK, and is part of ...
The rise of the labour movement saw farmworkers organise agricultural trade unions such as the Lincolnshire Labour League [note 1] and the Warwickshire Agricultural Labourers Union. [ note 2 ] These unions initially achieved modest victories and growth, but a series of unsuccessful attempts to use collective action resulted in the decline and ...
The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) of Australia regulations require that all cattle be fitted with a RFID device in the form of an ear tag or rumen bolus (a cylindrical object placed in the rumen) [2] [3] before movement from the property and that the movement be reported to the NLIS. However, if animals are tagged for internal ...
The last independent union for sheet metal workers, the Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society, finally merged into the union in 1973. [ 4 ] The union approved an offer to join the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers ' Engineering Section in 1979, [ 1 ] but this did not go ahead and instead, in 1983, it merged into the ...
The Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) was set up by the UK Government under the Agriculture Act 1967 with government money with the remit to promote the sale of red meat. The MLC was previously an independent non-departmental public body, but from 1 April 2008 it was superseded by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. [1]
The Longhorn was formerly listed as "priority" on the watchlist of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, but in 2021 was listed among the "UK native breeds". [3] Some of the cattle have been exported to countries outside the British Isles. They are present in Australia, and there are small numbers in Holland [7] and New Zealand. [8]
The system uses Radiofrequency Identification Devices applied as ear tags to identify and track livestock, each assigned an individual and unique electronic and physical printed tag numbers. There is an associated central electronic database which is used to record each animal's residency and keep track of the other animals it has interacted ...
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