School kitchens come back to life in the first week of September after six weeks of near silence, and the waste arrangements that were switched off in July have to be switched back on before the first service rather than after it. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial waste services across […]
University Food Waste Collection Across Halls, Refectories and Campus Outlets
A university campus is one of the more complicated food waste producers a licensed collector deals with, because it is not one kitchen but a dozen operations with different opening patterns sharing a single site and a single reputation. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial food waste services across the North […]
Pet Food Manufacturing ABP Collection and the Category 3 Chain Either Side of the Factory
Pet food manufacturing sits at an unusual point in the animal by-products system, because the industry consumes Category 3 material as a raw input and generates further by-product material as an output. Martlands is licensed and DEFRA approved for all three animal by-product categories and provides fallen stock and ABP collection across the North West, […]
Contract Rearing Fallen Stock Collection and Who Actually Carries the Duty
Contract rearing, share farming and grazing agreements have grown steadily across the North West, and they solve a real problem for both parties. They also create a question about responsibility that most agreements handle poorly. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection from a DEFRA approved facility at Burscough, and contract rearing fallen stock […]
End of Flock Poultry ABP Collection and Managing Depopulation Properly
Poultry production runs in cycles, and the end of each cycle produces a concentrated burst of animal by-product material that is quite different in character to the daily mortality a unit handles the rest of the time. Martlands is a DEFRA approved provider of fallen stock and ABP collection licensed for all three by-product categories, […]
Notifiable Disease Fallen Stock Collection and How It Works Alongside APHA
Most fallen stock is collected on a routine basis and nobody outside the holding needs to know about it. Occasionally a death raises a suspicion that changes the sequence entirely, and knowing what to do in the first thirty minutes is worth a great deal. Martlands operates as a licensed and DEFRA approved provider of […]
Breeding Season Fallen Stock Collection for Flocks Preparing to Tup
The weeks running up to tupping are when a sheep enterprise handles its flock more intensively than at any point outside lambing, and handling reveals losses that would otherwise go unnoticed for weeks. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection to flocks from the Lancashire mosslands to the Cumbrian fells, and breeding season fallen […]
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 […]
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 […]
Harvest Season Fallen Stock Collection on Mixed and Arable Holdings
Late summer places a kind of pressure on mixed holdings that no other part of the farming year quite matches, and stock losses that happen while the combine is running have a habit of arriving at the worst possible moment. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection from a licensed base at Burscough […]