Fallen stock collection in Bingley serves a farming landscape that climbs quickly – within minutes of the town centre and the A650, the valley sides rise to grazing land and moor edge where sheep and small beef herds work ground that has been farmed the same way for generations. Martlands provides fallen stock and ABP collection across the North West and into West Yorkshire from our DEFRA approved facility in Burscough, and the Aire valley farms between Bradford and the Dales sit on our regular trans-Pennine collection rounds.
What Bingley Keepers Can Expect From a Licensed Collection
The legal position is the same on an Airedale hillside as anywhere else in the country – on-farm burial and burning of livestock has been illegal since 2003, and the keeper carries a duty of care to have fallen stock collected within 24 hours of discovery. What varies is how well the collector handles the practical side. Around Bingley that means crews who can work the steep valley-side lanes, who understand that many holdings here are worked part-time around other jobs, and who can be flexible about meeting the keeper on site rather than assuming someone is always in the yard.
Sheep Losses Dominate but Cattle Bring Extra Requirements
Most of the fallen stock we collect around Bingley is sheep, with losses concentrated through lambing and the hard weeks of winter on the higher ground. Where the loss is an adult bovine there is an additional legal step, because fallen cattle over 48 months of age must be BSE tested before disposal. Martlands operates as a DEFRA approved sampling centre, so that sampling happens within our own process – the keeper makes one call and the testing requirement is dealt with as part of the collection. Our guide to safe on-farm storage of fallen stock is worth reading for keepers on the higher ground, where holding an animal securely until the vehicle arrives takes a little planning.
Every Collection Leaves a Complete Record
Each collection in Bingley is issued with a Commercial Document and a Waste Transfer Note, giving the keeper the continuous paper trail that inspections and assurance assessments are built around. We are members of the National Fallen Stock Company, collections are managed through the KoLeCt system, and disposal takes place at our own licensed processing facility, which means the record has no gaps for an assessor to query. For the many smaller Airedale holdings that have never been through an audit, that paperwork arriving with every collection is compliance handled by default rather than something to reconstruct later.
One Set of Crews Covering the Whole Valley
Bingley sits in the middle of our Aire valley coverage, and the same vehicles serve the towns either side along the A650 corridor – you can read more on our dedicated pages for Shipley fallen stock collection and Keighley fallen stock collection, and for the grazing land north towards the moors on our Ilkley fallen stock collection page. Because the rounds link together, a Bingley collection is rarely a special journey, which is what makes same-day availability realistic on this side of the Pennines.
Why Prompt Collection Protects the Rest of the Flock
A carcass left in a field is not a neutral presence. It draws scavengers down off the moor, it poses a disease risk to the animals still grazing around it, and on land criss-crossed by footpaths as heavily as Airedale it will be seen. Prompt licensed collection removes the biosecurity risk and the reputational one in a single visit, and our farm and fallen stock collection service runs a rapid-response fleet precisely so that prompt genuinely means prompt.
Arranging a Collection in Bingley
If you have fallen stock anywhere around Bingley or the Aire valley, call Martlands on 01704 776977. We will arrange the collection, carry out any required cattle sampling and issue the full compliance paperwork, with crews who know the valley and its lanes.
