THE Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) is encouraging smallholders and farmers to ensure timely registration of their rare breed livestock and equines despite the disruption to shows and sales for a second year, to help safeguard the breeds’ futures. In normal years the summer’s county shows, agricultural shows and sales often provide key milestones ahead of which rare breeds are registered, but many of these shows have been cancelled or disrupted. Registered livestock and equines need to be recorded in the relevant flock book, herd book or stud book, and some receive certificates. RBST chief executive Christopher Price said: “If registrations of rare breeds are overlooked in 2021 as a result of disruption to summer events, crucial information will be lost and the work to support the future of these breeds will suffer. Every registration helps RBST and the breed societies to determine an accurate picture for breed numbers and geographic distribution. Year by year this an
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THERE has been much talk recently, at least in theory, in some political circles concerning levelling up in order to make life fairer and more equitable. In real life, however, the actuality at times demonstrates that the general trajectory can be in the opposite direction ( Music lessons will soon be only for pupils from well-off families , The Herald, December 28). I believe it to be an indictment of our societal values when one reads that schools in Scotland are reported to be rapidly moving to the situation where only pupils from wealthy families are able to afford music lessons. Situations like this serve to confirm that we are still far removed from people in our country succeeding only on merit.