Vet David Burch of Octagon Services discusses the new Red Tractor assurance scheme requirement to measure antimicrobial use at farm levelThe European Commission’s 2011 action plan…
Month: August 2014
The eventual winners of the inaugural National Pig Awards will be exceptional individuals as the competition is looking very strong! There have been in excess of…
Aside from the daily demands from my nine-month-old son, who has just learnt to crawl and is now determined to get at everything he’s not supposed…
The Russian ban is hitting some EU countries hard, according to Pig Market Weekly. The latest EU Commission figures reveal that pork exports in the first…
We are only at the beginning of understanding livestock-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) concludes Danish PhD student Mette Theilgaard who recently completed a three-year investigation…
The NPA is urging utility companies to recognise the importance of complying with pig farm biosecurity arrangements, following reports of one inspector being told by his…
Britain’s consumers, retailers and politicians are being urged today to face up to the “worrying and continuing decline of food self-sufficiency” which has been sliding in this…
Landed estates with business interests across several activities will now be able to apply for loans on a whole enterprise basis rather having to seek separate…
A group of farmers is planning to put together an all-new apprenticeship scheme for English agriculture, and the group’s pig sector is represented by some of…
The animal health company Zoetis is to seek USDA approval for a PEDv vaccine according to a report in the National Pig Association’s Producer Brief.It’s believed…