1/3 of sheep farms culled in F&M didn't have disease

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We are continuing to improve traffic and visitors to our site. July showed over 170,000 hits with around 4680 unique visitors, while August showed a massive increase in hits to 290,000 although actual unique visitors stayed around the same. September brought 251,000 hits and a similar number of unique visitors.

The search and product pages show the most visitors. The forum is starting to get more visitors and also the links page is one of the pages showing lots of visitors. Visitors are then going to the main site from the forum and links page and also landing on the farm focus page. As expected most are leaving from the various product pages.

You will also notice some Google banner ads at the bottom of the main centre of the site. We hope to raise some additional income for advertising through these until we have established independent banner advertising.

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Forum Topics

The BBC reports that more than one third of sheep farms thought to have foot-and-mouth in the 2001 crisis did not have the disease. Over a million animals were slaughtered needlessly. Click Here to read more and discuss issue

Pale and white shelled eggs have caused a problem for one forum member - have you had similar problems. Click Here for forum post.

Business & Farm Focus

Business Focus: Institute of Organic Training and Advice - The Institute of Organic Training and Advice (IOTA) is an important new initiative supporting the work of advisers, trainers and others working in organic farming throughout the UK

Farm Focus: Bayhlam House Rare Breeds Farm - We keep four different breeds of cattle, White Park, Shetland, Old Gloucester and Highland and also seven flocks of rare sheep, Castlemilk Moorit, Norfolk Horn, Greyface Dartmoor, Llanwenog, Balwen, Ouessant and Herdwick. Our pigs include Large Black, Middle White, Berkshire and the exceedingly friendly Maori pigs from New Zealand called Kune Kunes. We also keep some very attractive pygmy goats and a variety of poultry including Buff Sussex, Ixworth, Scots Grey and Scots Dumpy.