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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. 

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has extended its free carcase collection services in north east England.

RUMA has expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ over the tone of a new fundraising campaign launched by the Soil Association.

George Eustice has confirmed the Government is considering providing grants to invest in farm infrastructure under a new domestic farm policy.

Pig producers have been reminded that zinc oxide is still permitted at therapeutic doses in piglet feed, despite the uncertainty over its future.