Red Tractor is one of seven assurance schemes expected by the UK Rodenticide Stewardship Regime to qualify as proof of competence beyond December 31, 2017. Since the…
Year: 2017
The long term trend of declining numbers of pig-slaughtering abattoirs in England appears to have stabilised. The latest figures from AHDB Pork show that 118 slaughterhouses…
The NPA will have the chance to feed in its views to a House of Lords inquiry into the implications of Brexit on farm animal welfare this week.…
Never has Donald Rumsfeld’s legendary summary of our limited understanding of an uncertain world been more apt. As the then US Secretary of State for Defence…
I’m writing this from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, where for the past 11 days I’ve been attending the Nuffield Contemporary Scholars Conference (CSC) with all…
I’m not much of an artist. I vividly remember slaving over a piece of artwork at school, only to be dashed by the teacher’s one-word comment:…
‘I love your mud!’ That was a great quote from a Derbyshire breeder who came down here to Devon during the middle of the wettest winter…
The Brexit debate has left me punch drunk. The people have decided to leave the European Union, and so be it. Now the poor foot soldiers…
With low piglet birthweights a growing concern, particularly in larger litters, I have been studying the range in weights in relation to litter size. Here’s a…
One of the most pleasing things we did on the farm this month was to take the Stabox (antibiotic) out of our creep feed. Our new…