Those who live and work in rural areas will probably have to deal with much higher numbers of rodents this autumn and winter, Roger Simspm, Lodi…
Month: September 2018
MPs will be joining the NFU and members of the public to show their support for British farming next week on Back British Farming Day (Wednesday,…
In the latest Veterinary View in the September issue of Pig World, Duncan Berkshire, one of the lead vets within the five-vet pig team at Bishopton…
The positive producer margins of 2017 have all but disappeared as input costs rise, reaching a four-year high recently. In the wake of the summer drought,…
As 2018 has progressed quickly, less can be said of the negotiation process for the UK’s exit negotiations from the EU. So slow has been the…
I’m starting to feel very old, having been telling young whippersnappers what the drought year of 1976 was like and how this year’s drought compared. For…
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published the findings of a major survey commissioned to fill in the gaps in the data on antimicrobial resistance…
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a ‘misleading’ cinema advert from vegan campaign group Viva! that claimed 90% of pigs are factory farmed. In a ruling…
Food Standards Agency (FSA) tests revealed that more than a fifth of meat sampled contained DNA from animals not on the labelling, according to the BBC.…
The Government has raised its assessment of the risk of products contaminated with the African swine fever (ASF) entering the UK from ‘low’ to ‘medium’. This…