Bacteria can be used to break down used sheep dip, preventing bees and fish from dying because of soil and river contamination, scientists heard today (Wednesday 10 September 2008) at the Society for ...

Natural Resources Wales' changes to waste sheep dip disposal permits are aimed at safeguarding rivers Welsh farmers are to be banned from disposing of waste sheep dip on their land, over concerns the ...

Sheep dip is, by its very nature, extremely effective at killing insects and other invertebrates but since even a tiny amount can cause ecological havoc if it reaches a water course, regulators and ...

The annual Sheep Dip show is a couple of weeks earlier than its usual late January date, but quite fortuitously, Northern Nevada politicians and institutions provided a bountiful bouquet of buffoonery ...

As the story goes, Basque sheepherders prepared their sheep for shearing (and the snipping of certain parts) by “dipping” them in a vat of cleansing agents. Fifty years ago, that little tidbit came to ...

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report detailing concerns about farmers being poisoned by organophosphate (OP) sheep dip has been destroyed, admits the government agency. Campaigners believe the ...

Sheep dip dripped into a watercourse devastating wildlife and local plants after a farmer failed to properly dispose of it. John Junor, of Dell Farm in Inverness, was fined £500 at Fort William ...

Mark Kelly, a sheep farmer from Northern Ireland, has designed an innovative sheep shower to treat his flock for pesticides. Emily McDaid reports. Mark Kelly has worked on his family farm in Beragh, ...

Bacteria can be used to break down used sheep dip, preventing bees and fish from dying because of soil and river contamination, scientists report. Bacteria can be used to break down used sheep dip, ...

Welsh farmers are to be banned from disposing of waste sheep dip on their land, over concerns the liquid chemical treatment is polluting rivers. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it had measured ...