Defra is stepping up its efforts to keep African swine fever (ASF) out of the UK, with new warnings to be introduced at ports and airports. A spokesperson…
Month: July 2019
Firefighters from Essex County Fire & Rescue Service were called to a fire involving a large agricultural building in Harlow yesterday, where farm owners released around…
Delegates from the Mexican livestock industry will be learning more about the UK’s pork sector when they arrive in the country this weekend. The six-day mission…
ForFarmers UK has announced proposals to close its site in Crewe in the final quarter of 2019. The company said that the feed volume that is…
Ed Barker is NPA’s senior policy advisor. He previously worked for rural business advisors Cheffins and Country and Business Association The NPA’s Ed Barker and Rebecca…
Some complex environmental regulatory issues could soon start having a significant impact on pig businesses. NPA policy services officer Lizzie Wilson explains The environment has been relatively…
Vietnam has had initial success in creating a vaccine to fight African swine fever, which has prompted the culling of around 10% of its pig herd.…
The Mercosur agreement reached at the end of last week between the EU and the group of South American countries could have implications for the UK…
AHDB has announced that it will soon extend isotope testing on pork to include local butcher shops. Until now, routine isotope testing of pork products, which…
Nicola Williams, Professor in Zoonotic Bacterial Disease at the University of Liverpool, is the latest researcher to join an independent scientific group which advises on the…