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Welsh Lamb and Beef Producers
Ltd (WLBP) is a farmer-controlled
agricultural cooperative society of
over 7,500 Welsh livestock farmers.
The sustainability of Welsh livestock farming
is dependent upon the effective marketing
of the produce of Welsh livestock farmers
and WLBP’s objectives are to develop and
manage the tools that will help its members
reach that goal. WLBP recently developed
an on-line health planner; both Rob Smith of
XLVets’ Farm First and Paul Rodgers of XLVets’
Allen and Partners were involved with
the process.
To promote the planner to Welsh vets there
was a series of seminars running from 4th to
6th May 2010 in Builth Wells, Gelly Aur,
Carmarthen and Carnarvon – covering mid,
south and north Wales. Paul Rodgers was
asked to help run these seminars as he’s a
LANTRA approved trainer; gained after
successful completion of the XLVets ‘Train the
Trainer’ programme. Richard Vecquerary of
EBVC also gave a talk on beef nutrition at
the meetings.
Welsh web-based herd health planner launches
S H O W S & E V E N T S
SUMMER 2010 ISSUE
LIVESTOCK MATTERS
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Beef Expo 2010
was held at the Auction
Mart, Hexham in Northumberland, where
XLVets attended to promote their farmer training
workshops, FarmSkills. Andrew Curwen, Roger
Scott and his team from Scott Mitchell, John
MacFarlane and his team from Alnorthumbria,
Bridget Taylor (Wright & Morten) and Richard
Knight (Westmorland) came along and wore
their vivid green FarmSkills t-shirts to raise
awareness of XLVets and FarmSkills, among the
farmers who came along. As well as talking
about the variety of workshops and knowledge
sharing that is part of XLVets and FarmSkills,
the stand was enlivened by our very own
FarmSkills juggler! He drew attention to the
fact that organising time for learning and skills
development can be a bit of a juggle on farm
and gave farmers the chance to improve their
multi-tasking skills by learning how to keep
more than one juggling ball in the air at once.
In addition, Roger Scott and John MacFarlane
gave two seminar presentations about learning
and skills development which were very
popular with the farmers who attended.
Beef Expo 2010 was a huge success with
many enquiries received for FarmSkills training
programmes across the country.
BEEF EXPO
2010
Paul Rodgers,
Allen and Partners Veterinary Surgeons