ISLAND FARMERS LEARN OF NEW RULES FOR ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION FOR SHEEP

The NFU will outline the implications of new European rules for the electronic identification (EID) of sheep to Island farmers later this month.NFU South East livestock adviser James Mulleneux will address a meeting for sheep farmers on January 27 from 7.30pm at The Chequers Inn, Rookley. He will explain how the NFU fought to mitigate the impact of the new European Union regulation which came into force on December 31, 2009. Now the legislation is in force, it is illegal for farmers to fail to comply. The new system aims to improve the identification and tracing of sheep across all European