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The RPA is seeking farmers, including pig producers to test the new Slurry Infrastructure Grant online application checker. 

The latest post on the forum is an eloquent and heartfelt plea for producers to make their voices heard in Defra's Pig Supply Chain Review. 

Farmers have two months left to sign-up to become a ‘TIAH Cultivator’, a pilot scheme aimed of boosting skills and careers in farming. 

Following a pause in assessments and a subsequent staged return the Pig Health Scheme is now operating at full capacity

Defra has launched an Independent Review into Labour Shortages in the food supply chain.

Defra have recently escalated the risk from human mediated transmission of ASF into the UK to high, this coupled with other domestic disease risks such as swine dysentery means it is more important than ever to practice vehicle biosecurity.

Worrying new data suggests the UK pig supply chain is facing a significant shortage of pork, as herd and sow numbers plummet. 

The increasing threat of African swine fever (ASK) has increased the focus on measures being taken on farms to keep the virus away from pigs should it enter the UK. 

A significant drop in UK pork production is forecast for this year, followed by an even bigger drop next year, on the back of a big reduction in the national sow herd. 

Six years ago, Richard Longthorp, one of pig farming's most familiar and formidable characters, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.