Farmers are being warned to scrutinise paperwork, supply chains and ingredients carefully before using fertiliser and by-products after it was revealed
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Authorities move to probe dairy farmers fertiliser concerns. Pictured here - mouldy silage which was tested and found to contain a mycotoxin produced by the fungi penicillium roqueforti INVESTIGATIONS ARE underway into the case of a dairy farm in the north of England which was forced to shut down over concerns that a product wrongly sold as liquid fertiliser contaminated the land and led to the loss of an entire herd of cattle. The Environment Agency confirmed that they were made aware of this case in January 2021 and are now looking into spring water, soil, milk and silage samples provided to them by the farmer involved.
The London office block at the heart of Belarus s foreign finance empire
Ties run deep between Britain and Europe s last dictatorship
25 May 2021 • 7:30pm
Families living in Hammersmith Grove, a stone’s throw from one of west London s busiest gyratories, could be forgiven for not giving the large 1970s beige building a second glance.
But inside the Regus serviced office block sits one of the most prominent outposts of Europe s last dictatorship.
BNK is at the heart of Belarus’s burgeoning economic influence in Britain. Official filings show that under the direction of bureaucrats in Minsk, more than €2bn of Belarusian oil is sold through its London trading subsidiary each year.