Lawyers to launch damages action within six weeks
UK - Lawyers acting on behalf of the NFU are set to launch their legal action for damages resulting from the foot-and-mouth outbreak within the next six weeks.

Scots Welcome Resumption Of Meat Exports
SCOTLAND - Some Scottish producers will breathe a weary sigh of relief as the export market for Scottish meat reopens tomorrow (Friday, October 12) following months of turmoil.

£6m Help Over FMD Vanishes
WALES - A UK government pledge to award Welsh farming £6.5m to cope with foot-and-mouth has disappeared into thin air, it was claimed last night.

CLA Asks Government To Justify Continued Use Of 20 Day Standstill Rule
UK - In response to an increase in calls from concerned Members, the CLA is asking Government to justify its continued use of the 20 day rule in low risk areas.

Governments Aid Package Falls Short Of The Mark
UK - The NFU has welcomed the Government's aid package to help livestock farmers in England recover from the foot and mouth and bluetongue crises, but has warned that its estimated £12.5 million value falls far short of the losses of over £100 million...

Farmers Ready to Take Their Frustrations to the Streets
UK - Tens of thousands of farmers could take to the streets this week in Edinburgh, Cardiff and London unless the UK government takes a more proportionate approach to the handling of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey.

Foot and Mouth Standstill ‘Crippling’ Livestock Industry
UK - The current 20-day standstill, introduced as a foot and mouth control measure, is crippling Scotland’s livestock industry and rendering livestock markets meaningless. NFUS has called for separation arrangements to be reintroduced immediately to...

Farmer compensation call renewed
UK - The National Farmers Union Scotland has renewed its call for the UK government to pay out compensation for lost income in the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak.

Changes to expect this week
UK - The surprise news this week of the pending resumption of exports of meat from animals in a limited area of Great Britain has to be good news even though closer inspection of the conditions may greatly limit the benefit to the English pig industry,...

Diseases Devastate British Producers
UK - The spread of infectious diseases in England has devastated the livestock industry there. A combination of ongoing concerns over foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and now, bluetongue, has resulted in multiple quarantines and bans on shipments of beef...

UK Government Must Compensate, Says NFUS
UK - The UK Government must compensate Scotland’s livestock farmers for the crisis brought about by the release of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) from the government-licensed facility at Pirbright.

First Meat Exports from 12 October, But Strings Attached
UK - Scotland’s farming union has welcomed with relief the news that some fresh meat exports to Europe can begin again from Great Britain from 12 October. The decision is reliant on there being no cases of foot and mouth disease outwith a 200km zone...

Foot-and-Mouth Shutdown Could Not Be At Worse Time
UK - The general public can be forgiven for assuming that the worst of the foot-and-mouth crisis is over: they will have read reports that livestock markets are once again open for business and will believe that farming is more or less back to a state...

New Lab Planned Amid Britain's Foot-and-Mouth Outbreaks
US - The recent spread of a deadly livestock disease from a biolab campus in Britain has not stopped American officials from considering building a new animal disease research lab in the United States.

Relaxation of controls in the south
UK - DEFRA has relaxed the foot-and-mouth status from high-risk to low-risk for a large area of the south east, effective from midnight last night.

Eighth FMD case confirmed
UK - Following further clinical examination and results of preliminary laboratory tests, Defra has confirmed Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) was present at the premises in Surrey where slaughter on suspicion was announced yesterday.

New FMD case under suspicion in surveillance zone
UK - Defra have reports they have taken the decision to slaughter cattle on suspicion of Foot and Mouth Disease on a farm in Surrey.

Green Light For Livestock Markets Is Good News For Farmers
UK - NFU Cymru has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones that provided that there are no further changes to the disease situation, livestock markets may resume in Wales as of next Thursday, 4 Oct 2007.

Industry Unites To Solve Livestock Problems
UK - The Scottish agricultural industry has joined forces to address the various livestock problems caused by Foot and Mouth disease.

FMD Disease Restrictions To Be Eased
UK - The government's chief vet is to ease some animal restrictions imposed after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth, despite a seventh case being confirmed.