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YNPA member Lee Thompson, a finishing fieldsman at Wayland Farms, explains why he is break the stigma held around mental health in farming

The NPA is calling for pig production to have a more formal and recognised role in the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.

MPs have picked up on the NPA’s concerns over how term COVID-19 could result in a long-term shift towards protectionism in international trade.

Quarterly Red Tractor vet visits to pig farms are to resume from the start of August, after they were suspended in March due to COVID-19.

ADAS is seeking producers' views on the feasibility of insect meal as alternative novel protein to that of soybean meal and fishmeal. 

The NPA's Rebecca Veale has posted an update on the future of farrowing crates in the Members Area. 

The first part of National Food Strategy has set out the steps the Government should take to protect food standards under future trade deals.

Defra has confirmed that greening requirements will be dropped in England next year, as the agricultural transition commences. 

NPA senior policy adviser Ed Barker is quoted in the Sunday Times warning about the potential 'real danger' to UK pig farming from a US trade deal.

Defra director Ben Goldsmith is being investigated by the police over allegations concerning the release of deer and wild boar around his farm in Somerset.