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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Multiple Livestock Losses Fallen Stock Collection When Several Animals Die at Once
Most fallen stock is handled one animal at a time, but every keeper eventually faces the morning when several are lying in the same field. Martlands provides DEFRA approved fallen stock and ABP collection with a rapid-response fleet operating from Burscough, and multiple livestock losses fallen stock collection is the situation where the difference between […]
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 […]