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PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVEN the most ill-informed layman knows that modern farming is often a technically advanced and scientific business, but the extent to which new technologies are being used to maximise production is not so-widely known, even within the industry itself.…
FOOD SAFETY THINK PIECE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOW the arguing is over and the dye has been cast, it is time to start work on the practicalities of admitting 10 new countries to the European Union, making this long discussed enlargement work for British and western European farmers.…
SEED BREEDING THINK PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WHAT a complex and mysterious thing wheat is! Scientists tell us that modern wheat is a hexaploid, which means that the long-distant ancestors of wheat “hybridised in a way that combined three copies of the original genome to produce a genome with over 150,000 genes.”…
ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES - PIPES ETC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed a complicated, but flexible, set of anti-dumping duties to be levied upon certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel from Bulgaria, South Africa, Serbia & Montenegro and Taiwan; plus certain iron and steel tube and pipe fittings from Thailand, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Slovakia.…
CHINESE BANKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce has claimed that a growing number of Chinese banks are unnecessarily rejecting valid banking documents, hindering the import of steel into the country.
It says that the value of rejected documents relating to steel shipments into China has now exceeded US$100 million.…
THAINOX
BY MARK ROWE
Thainox Steel, the largest stainless steel manufacturer in Southeast Asia, expects to boost output this year and increase profits, defying the continuing decline in global stainless steel prices. Output at the company’s plant in Rayong, Thailand, is expected to top 160,000 tonnes, up 10,000 tonnes from last year.…
ZAMBIA COPPER
BY RICHARD HURST
ZAMBIA’S Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has announced that has launched an investigation to extend the working of its Nchanga open pit mine beyond its current planned three year lifespan.
Russell Alley, KCM chief executive officer, said that the company was exploring additional adjacent resources within the Nchanga area to replace the tonnage of copper ore mined.…
RUSSIA - NORTH POLE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA has unambiguously staked its claim to territorial rights to wide swathes of the Arctic Ocean between its northern coast and the North Pole, waters that are currently frozen for most of the year, but which may become more accessible to submarine mining thanks to global warming.…
BRUSSELS PLAN FOR MINING WASTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
New EU-wide rules to regulate waste from extractive industries like mining and quarrying have been proposed by the European Commission in a move to prevent the pollution of water and soil arising out of the long-term storage of waste in tailings ponds, waste heaps, lakes and rivers.…
EU CHEMCALS PROPOSALS
BY ALAN OSBORN
POLYMERS and other intermediate chemicals have come off lightly under the European Commission’s long-awaited proposals for new legislation to regulate chemicals in the European Union. In many cases such substances will be freed from the need to register and for others the requirements will be significantly eased.…