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African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed at pig farms in Serbia.

Please see our dedicated African Swine Fever (ASF) page here for the latest update

Thailand bans exports from Myanmar following their first case of African swine fever.

Two Danish people working on a pig farm in Western Australia have been convicted of illegally importing pig semen from Denmark to Australia.

Recent covert filming of farrowing crates on pig units funded by Compassion In World Farming  has been widely publicised

The NPA's AGM will take place on September 10, in London. 

Following reports that China’s pig herd could halve by the end of this year, May figures have been released on export trade for the EU and UK. Against a backdrop of herd losses in some parts of China estimated to be between 40 and 60%

A year has now passed since China announced they had African swine fever, so what's happened in the last 12 months?

Although UK pig prices have remained at similar levels with the SPP only moving up a fraction to stand at 152.8p, on the other side of the channel a different picture is continuing to emerge with further increases in the influential German producer price which gained another seven cents this week on top of the four cent increase seven days ago.