Bacteria can be used to break down used sheep dip, preventing bees and fish from dying because of soil and river contamination, scientists heard today (Wednesday 10 September 2008) at the Society for ...

Natural Resources Wales' changes to waste sheep dip disposal permits are aimed at safeguarding rivers Welsh farmers are to be banned from disposing of waste sheep dip on their land, over concerns the ...

The annual Sheep Dip show is a couple of weeks earlier than its usual late January date, but quite fortuitously, Northern Nevada politicians and institutions provided a bountiful bouquet of buffoonery ...

As the story goes, Basque sheepherders prepared their sheep for shearing (and the snipping of certain parts) by “dipping” them in a vat of cleansing agents. Fifty years ago, that little tidbit came to ...

Controlling sheep scab has always been a problem in the hills, which, coupled with recent reports confirming the detection of resistance of the sheep scab mite to 3ML wormers1, is resulting in ...

"We are looking for a scheme with a payment rate of €10 per head so the situation can be brought under control." Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association sheep chairman Willie Shaw said that scab in ...

More than 28,000 sheep have been dipped to rid a Hebridean island of a costly and contagious parasite. Crofters and farmers on Lewis and Harris co-ordinated time off, wagons, trailers, and dogs to dip ...

Sheep scab is rampant across the country, and farmers are struggling to keep it under control, according to the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA). The organisation has called for the ...

Bacteria can be used to break down used sheep dip, preventing bees and fish from dying because of soil and river contamination, scientists report. Bacteria can be used to break down used sheep dip, ...

Welsh farmers are to be banned from disposing of waste sheep dip on their land, over concerns the liquid chemical treatment is polluting rivers. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it had measured ...

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