Pork producers in Canada have called on the government to pay them emergency funds of CAN$20 per pig to help them stay in the business, Chris McCullough…
Month: April 2020
A mentoring programme aimed at supporting the clinical development and wellbeing of new farm vets has been launched by UK veterinary group, VetPartners to help bridge the…
The NPA has welcomed the Government announcement that farmers and other food chain workers in England with COVID-19-like symptoms will now be eligible for testing. This…
Morrisons has announced measures to say thank you to British farmers and to offer a wider range of their products to customers, including offering farmers who supply their…
AHDB has launched a new campaign to encourage people to eat pulled pork at home to help rebalance the pork carcase during the COVID-19 outbreak. The…
The Environment Agency has set out its position on regulation during coronavirus, indicating that it will be ‘flexible’ where unavoidable breaches have occurred. The agency has…
Two of the biggest EU pig herds, Germany and Spain, continued to decline in the early part of this year. Overall EU pork production (plus the UK),…
Zinpro Corporation has produced an animated video called Take the Proven Path to educate the farming industry about the difference in trace mineral absorption and metabolism and how its trace…
Mike Sheldon has been reappointed by UK Ministers for a second term as chair of AHDB’s pork sector board. Mr Sheldon, who was first appointed to the…
Bayer Animal Health has launched a global ‘Care4Pigs’ grant initiative which aims to ‘help the industry turn innovative ideas for advancing pig wellbeing into a reality’.…