A training event, designed to help vets “gain confidence” in dealing with pig and goat patients, is being staged in Bristol next week. Arranged by the…
Year: 2016
PRRS, antimicrobial use in farm animals and welfare concerns relating to the slaughter of pregnant livestock are all on the agenda for discussion during a two-day…
Ladies in Pigs (LIPs) was duly recognised as one of British farming’s “dynamic groups” today, featuring as part of a Defra statement released to mark International…
The prospect of another private storage aid (PSA) scheme for pigmeat has definitely “not been ruled out” according to European farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, despite his…
The vast majority of US pork producers are “aware and ready” to cope with planned regulatory changes regarding the on-farm use of antibiotics in the US,…
Global pork export prices finished 2015 at their lowest level for over six years, according to AHDB Pork. The year-end average for the EU, US, Canada…
Europe’s farm leaders are stepping up their campaign for a range of measures to end the EU agricultural crisis, including calling for “extended private storage aid…
Concern has been expressed by the chief veterinary officer (CVO) for Wales, Christianne Glossop, that a new survey of animal health and welfare in the country…
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has warned pigmeat, beef and lamb producers that there is “unlikely” to be much strengthening of livestock farmgate prices in the short…
Heather Hancock has been confirmed as the new Chair of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) with effect from April 1, 2016. Ms Hancock (pictured above), who…