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The NPA is urging pig farmers to take steps to ensure they don't get caught up in potentially damaging avian flu restrictions.

The NPA has published a new document for members offering guidance on the animal rights activity increasingly being experienced within the pig sector. 

Advice on pig health and biosecurity will be on offer from this year's David Black Award winner as APHA hosts meetings in late January/early February. 

Restrictions have been put in place around a premises in North Yorkshire, after H5N8 avian flu was confirmed in a small backyard poultry flock.

Pork exports, primarily to China, are adding about £35 to the value of UK pigs, according to AHDB’s chief strategy officer Tom Hind.

The NPA has responded to claims made about antibiotic usage in pigs on Radio 4' Farming Today Programme. 

What will replace the CAP? A high-profile OFC panel delivered a range of views on how farmers should be supported post-Brexit. 

Controlling immigration will be a Brexit priority for the Government, Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill has told the NPA.

Delegates at the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) hoping for answers from Defra Ministers on some of the big Brexit issues were left largely unsated. 

NPA chairman Richard Lister is due to appear on the One Show later this week to discuss the use of antibiotics in pig farming.