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The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is backing the NPA’s calls for a 10-year transition period, if zinc oxide is banned in piglet feed.

Farmers are being urged to get planning applications in early, ahead of a 20% increase in planning fees from this summer.

The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) is inviting businesses that supply retailers direct to two roundtable meetings during the spring.

The SPP has put on 0.35p to stand at 149.94p, German producer prices have risen 3 Euro Cents, the Euro is up by 1.7% to trade on Friday worth 87.41p.

The Red Tractor pigs board has accepted a request by the NPA producer group to allow more time for scheme members to submit data onto the eMB-Pigs database.

On-farm best practice from across the major pig producing countries in Europe will be captured and disseminated via a new knowledge-sharing project.

Rising sales of prime cuts to China are just one reason to be optimistic about the pork marketplace, according to AHDB Pork strategy director Mick Sloyan.

Use of antibiotics is falling more quickly in agriculture than in human medicine, Junior Health Minister Nicola Blackwood has revealed.

Higher National Insurance contributions announced in today’s Budget will hit farmers, self-employed farm workers and contractors. 

The NPA producer group has called on the Red Tractor pork board to give producers more time to enter data onto eMB-Pigs.