The North West has more independent breweries and small distilleries than at any point in living memory, and brewery food waste collection is one of the compliance areas those businesses most often discover late. Spent grain, spent hops, trub, yeast slurry, out-of-date packaged product and taproom kitchen waste are not one waste stream but several, […]
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Autumn Poisoning Fallen Stock Collection After Acorn and Sycamore Losses
Every autumn a handful of North West farms lose animals to plants that were harmless three weeks earlier, and autumn poisoning fallen stock collection follows a seasonal calendar as reliable as any disease. Acorns drop in September and October, sycamore seeds fall through the same weeks, yew clippings appear on hedgerows after garden tidying, and […]
Casualty Slaughter Fallen Stock Collection and the By-Products That Follow
Few areas of on-farm decision making are as poorly understood as the point at which an injured animal stops being a candidate for the food chain and becomes fallen stock. Casualty slaughter fallen stock collection sits directly on that line, and getting the decision wrong costs either the value of the carcass or a serious […]
Organic Farm Fallen Stock Collection and Certification Record Keeping
Organic certification adds a layer of scrutiny to almost every input and output on a holding, and organic farm fallen stock collection is one of the areas where inspectors expect the paperwork to be complete rather than approximately right. Organic standards do not create a separate disposal route for dead animals, but they do put […]
Farm Access Fallen Stock Collection Through Autumn and Winter Conditions
The single most common reason a collection is delayed is not the collector and not the farmer, it is the ground between them. Farm access fallen stock collection becomes markedly harder from October onwards, when tracks that carried a loaded vehicle all summer turn to mud and field gateways stop being usable at all. Martlands […]
Rescue Centre ABP Collection for Kennels Catteries and Sanctuaries
Animal rescue centres, boarding kennels, catteries and sanctuaries face a disposal question that most other businesses never have to answer, and rescue centre ABP collection is a regulated activity rather than a matter of choice. Deceased pet animals are Category 1 animal by-product material, which places them in the most tightly controlled stream in the […]
Alpaca Fallen Stock Collection for North West Camelid Keepers
Alpacas and llamas have gone from curiosity to established smallholding livestock across Lancashire, Cheshire and the Wirral in little more than a decade, and alpaca fallen stock collection is now a regular part of our week rather than an occasional call. Many camelid keepers come to livestock from a companion animal background and are genuinely […]
Weaned Lamb Fallen Stock Collection Through the Autumn Store Period
Weaning breaks the single most protective relationship in a sheep flock, and the weeks that follow it produce a mortality pattern every flockmaster recognises. Weaned lamb fallen stock collection is a routine autumn requirement across the hill and upland flocks of Lancashire, Cumbria and North Wales, and the losses are rarely dramatic enough to prompt […]
Bought In Cattle Fallen Stock Collection After the Autumn Store Sales
The autumn store sales move enormous numbers of cattle around the North of England in a matter of weeks, and bought in cattle fallen stock collection is the unwelcome sequel for a proportion of the buyers. Animals assembled from several holdings, mixed at a market, transported and then housed in a strange building are under […]
Silage Feeding Fallen Stock Collection Through the Housing Transition
The change from grazed grass to a conserved winter ration is one of the most abrupt dietary events in the farming year, and silage feeding fallen stock collection is a predictable consequence of getting it wrong. Acidosis, bloat, listeriosis and clostridial disease all cluster in the fortnight either side of housing, and the animals lost […]