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The NPA has called for the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) to be extended to cover the entire supply chain.

Funding for the RUMA Alliance has more than tripled this year as it oversees the drive to reduce antibiotics on farms. 

Defra is moving. The Department's staff will move into premises occupied by the Home Office in early 2018, saving an estimated £2m a year.

Restaurant chain Whitbread has apologised after it emerged some of its restaurants have been adding pork to lasagne dishes, without telling customers.

An opportunity has arisen with a pig business operating in East and North Yorkshire.

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.