Every autumn, before the closed spreading period begins, slurry stores across the North West are stirred and emptied, and every autumn that work kills livestock. Slurry gas fallen stock collection is a grim but necessary part of the season, because hydrogen sulphide released during mixing can drop a shed full of cattle in minutes. Martlands […]
Storm Losses Fallen Stock Collection After Autumn Weather Events
Named storms now arrive on the North West coast from late September onwards, and storm losses fallen stock collection is one of the least planned-for parts of farm emergency response. Lightning strike, flooding, collapsed buildings, wind-thrown trees and animals drowned in swollen ditches all produce sudden mortality, often in groups, often on ground a vehicle […]
Liver Fluke Fallen Stock Collection Across the North West Autumn
Autumn is the point in the farming year when liver fluke stops being a background worry and starts killing animals, and liver fluke fallen stock collection becomes a real operational requirement on wet ground across Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria. Martlands is a family-run, DEFRA approved business based in Burscough, and our fallen stock and ABP […]
Autumn Housing Fallen Stock Collection and the Losses That Follow Turnout Ending
Bringing stock in off grass is one of the two or three genuine pressure points in the livestock calendar, and the mortality pattern in the fortnight either side of housing is quite different to the one you see in midsummer. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection across the North West from a DEFRA […]
Calf Mortality Fallen Stock Collection Through the Autumn Calving Block
Autumn calving concentrates a herd’s highest-risk animals into a few intense weeks, and the resulting mortality is the single largest fallen stock workload many dairy and suckler units generate all year. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection to herds across Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Cumbria, and calf mortality fallen stock collection during […]
Livestock Transport Fallen Stock Collection and Deaths That Happen in Transit
An animal that dies in a livestock trailer creates a problem that nobody on the road is well placed to solve, and the questions that follow are about responsibility as much as disposal. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection to farms, hauliers and market operators across the North West, and livestock transport fallen […]
Stadium Food Waste Collection and Handling the Match Day Peak
A stadium spends most of the week as an empty building and a few hours a fortnight as a small town, and its waste arrangements have to cope with both. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial food waste services across the North West, and stadium food waste collection is one of […]
Farm Dispersal Sale Fallen Stock Duties and Clearing a Holding Properly
A dispersal sale is the end of a farming business and usually the end of a family’s connection with a holding, and it is not a moment anybody wants to spend thinking about waste regulations. It is nonetheless the point at which several years of accumulated obligation comes due at once. Martlands provides licensed fallen […]
Fallen Stock Insurance Claims and the Evidence That Actually Supports Them
Livestock insurance is one of those things farmers hold for years without using and then need at exactly the moment when nobody has time to think about paperwork. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection across the North West, and although we are not insurers and cannot advise on cover, we are frequently […]
Wildlife Park ABP Collection for Zoos, Safari Parks and Animal Collections
A zoological collection produces a far more varied stream of animal by-product material than a farm does, and it does so under the gaze of a paying public and a licensing authority at the same time. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection across the North West and is approved for all three animal […]