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"Dexter<\/a>I read an obituary of someone called Joe Henson<\/a> this week, founder of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.\u00a0 For those of you in the UK his son Adam is a presenter of “Countryfile” and Joe has featured on it a few times as well.\u00a0 We may have a lot to thank Joe Henson for in the future.\u00a0 He started the Rare Breeds survival trust which aims to ensure the survival of rare breeds of farm animals.\u00a0 What is even more surprising about this story is that Joe Henson did not even come from a farming background but was the son of an actor.<\/p>\n

One of the big problems of modern agriculture is the limited gene pool used.\u00a0 This applies not just to breeds of farm animals but also breeds of plants.\u00a0 This may have aesthetic taste implications (see our \u201capple day\u201d<\/a> post) but the narrow genetic range matters for a number of other reasons.\u00a0 The first is that a disease could wipe the animal or plant out leaving us vulnerable.\u00a0 This happened with maize in the US in the 1970’s.\u00a0 The second is these rare breeds may have useful genetic traits which could be bred into the wider population.\u00a0 We need to preserve these breeds for those reasons and since we would lose part of our heritage.\u00a0 This is particularly true for our family.\u00a0 One of my ancestors bred the Dexter cow (pic above).\u00a0 It was saved by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and is no longer endangered.\u00a0 Thanks Joe.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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