A judge has severed an exemption under Question 3 of the Massachusetts Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (MPFACA) after it was found to be unconstitutional.…
Month: February 2024
Mike Sheldon, who will step down as AHDB Pork Sector Council chair at end of March, after seven years in the role, explains what the role…
Garth Pig Practice’s Gemma Thwaites, a senior vice-president of the Pig Veterinary Society and a member of the group developing the Pig Health and Welfare Pathway,…
There have been fresh calls for the Government to drop plans to cut funding for the work at Dover in seizing illegal meat imports to prevent…
AHDB is forecasting only very limited recovery in both pork production and pig breeding numbers in 2024, despite much more favourable market conditions, as producers remain…
New statistics released by ADHB show that farm profitability may be impacted in 2024, due to short-term variability in input costs and inflation for UK farm…
The pork levy will increase by 20% from April, after Ministers in Defra and the Devolved Administrations approved levy rate hikes across AHDB’s four sectors. The…
The UK veterinary and pharmaceutical sectors have broadly welcomed long-awaited plans to modernise the Veterinary Medicines Regulations. Defra said the plans aim to make the regulations…
NFSCo, the National Fallen Stock Company, has elected former NFU poultry chairman Charles Bourns as its new chairman, following the retirement of the inaugural chair Michael…
Dover District Council has called on Defra to scrap its plans to cut funding, worth £3 million, for essential checks for illegal imports at the Port…