RSPCA Assured is recruiting two Freedom Food assessors, predominantly to undertake pig and poultry assessments in East Anglia. Key tasks will include arranging and carrying out…
Month: September 2015
An advert to promote RSPCA Assured, that features the voice of actor John Hurt, will be shown appear on TV screens from this week. It wil…
EU farm ministers will need to produce a different form of private storage aid (PSA) to the one used earlier this year, if that proves to…
The Netherlands-based animal nutrition business, Nutreco, is to double its investment in R&D and innovation over the next few years while also changing the name of…
The UK’s farming ministers have been challenged by their Scottish equivalent to secure a “fairer framework for farming” during today’s emergency summit in Brussels. “We have…
The international feed company, ForFarmers, has reported “solid development” for the first half of 2015, with gross profits up 10.2% on the same period last year.…
Scientists at University College London have discovered that foreign sausage meat, much of it from France and Germany, is the likely source of increasing numbers of cases…
The National Pig Awards is designed to promote and reward excellence throughout the entirety of our industry. Therefore, it’s only right we have an award for…
In school report terms, pig prices are still a case of “could do better”, although it was good to see the SPP take a slight upward…
The European Parliament’s agriculture committee has rejected the European Commission’s proposal to give member states the power to restrict or prohibit the use of EU-approved GM…