RSPCA Assured has published new RSPCA welfare standards for pigs to help further improve their welfare. The standards came into effect on March 3, although some…
Month: March 2025
The government will be complicit in a damaging future disease outbreak, if it does not address the gaping holes in our border controls, NPA chief executive…
Further changes to rodenticide use legislation will mean farmers and growers will need an up-to-date certification to purchase and use any professional rodenticides from January 1…
NPA chief executive Lizzie Wilson will highlight the pig sector’s growing concerns over failures in the UK’s border controls during a hearing in front of the…
Defra’s December livestock census for England shows significant growth of both the overall pig herd and the breeding herd. The overall herd was up by 8.7%…
The United Pig Cooperative (UPC), a ground-breaking merger between three marketing groups – Scottish Pig Producers, Scotlean Pigs and Thames Valley Cambac – formally launched on…