The NPA has urged the Treasury to ensure there is sufficient spending on biosecurity and border controls to protect the UK from diseases like African swine…
Month: September 2024
NFU president Tom Bradshaw described confirmation of a huge underspend on the agriculture budget by Defra over the past three years as a ‘kick in the…
here has been growing concern within the industry about the steady rise in swine dysentery (SD), the damaging enteric disease that has been affecting many pig…
Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been elected as the new chair of the cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, which scrutinises Defra’s work in…
Respiratory problems regularly present a challenge on pig farms and both clinical and sub-clinical disease can have a significant effect on herd performance, especially where more…
Amid increasing concern over the likelihood of ASF reaching pigs in the UK, the Dover Port Health Authority’s Lucy Manzano tells ALISTAIR DRIVER why the government…
The adage is that you can live three weeks without food, but only three days without water. The latest round of hot weather has highlighted this…
Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on August 6 has jeopardised dozens of large pig farms and huge processing capacities in the region. Within…
Scientists have been awarded government funding to develop a vaccine that could help control Streptococcus suis, of one of the most common diseases affecting the UK…
Among its pledges to support farmers, Defra ministers have pledged to seek a new veterinary agreement with the EU to reduce the costs and bureaucracy now…