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Latest Version of Animal Welfare COP
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Latest version of draft standard. Comments due by JUne 21 to David Champness, DEPI. (more…)
Revisions to Animal Welfare COP – June 2013
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The following suggested changes have been received.
Please advise by June 21 if you wish to comment on these.
Geelong Sales Back in Action
This weeks Geelong sale went ahead as scheduled after last weeks fire in the heritage listed canteen and broker offices. Temporary arrangements for catering and data management ensured that the sale continued as usual.
National Grass Seeds Project
Yesterday I attended a workshop run by MLA that covered the issue of grass seed contamination in lambs. Main area of concern for us is the preceived dumping of badly affected stock at saleyards.
Future actions are likely to include PIC based tracking of lamb producers and a flag warning system for PIC’s that have had grass seeed contamination. Processors will incorporate a national rating system for each carcass and this will be feed back to agents and producers.
Find attached a draft action plan. ON sure of LSAV involvement going forward but we will receive correspondence and PR materials at a (more…)
Saleyard Heritage Lost
The Geelong saleyard buildings were destroyed by arson on Sunday evening May 26. These buildings had recently been refurbished and were listed as heritage items. The Geelong saleyard is one of the longest continously operating saleyards in the country. The fire completely destroyed the canteen area and most of the roof structure. Fortunately this Monday was not a sale week and sales are still expected to resume next Monday.
Saleyard Animal Welfare – Code of Practice
The move towards a national COP for Saleyard Animal Welfare took another positive step yesterday (Thursday May 24). At a workshop in Tullamarine representatives from all states and other relevant organizations provided the initial signoff on the version created by the Victoria working group. Once these final edits are completed and agreed to by this broader national group the next step can be taken. This involves a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) and then subsequent introduction into the relevant state acts. (more…)
Ramp Standards
Please find attached the latest ALTRA newsletter which contains a survey form for transporters to complete for saleyards.
New Ramp Standards
The following information was received in the most recent ALTRA newsletter in relation to transporters pushing for new ramp (and possibly pens/gates/yards etc) standards. LSAV has not received any information on this process and I would be interested to know if any members have been asked about this or received any information from the transport sector.
Work starts on the new ramp standard
I’m pretty pumped to report that the federal bureaucrats have been moving quickly to start work on this project. This week, they’ve appointed former Victorian WorkSafe officer Kevin Simmonds to do a lot of the leg work (more…)
Victorian Budget Funding for Sheep RFID
The recent Victorian budget provided an allocation of funds in 2013-14 related to the implementation of sheep RFID. The relevant section from the Agricultural Ministers press release is quoted below.
“A priority will be increasing the industry’s preparedness for an outbreak of FMD, which is a highly contagious viral disease of livestock that is widespread throughout Asia and Africa but not present in Australia.
“This budget allocation will progress Victoria’s move towards an effective electronic identification system for sheep and goats, replacing the current visual tag and paper based National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) (Sheep & (more…)