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Gene editing technology offers huge opportunities for the UK pig sector’, but clear leadership is needed to adress a number of significant barriers to its commercial use. 

The new Livestock Information Service is seeking help to test help it build the new multi-species livestock traceability service for England. 

Norfolk outdoor pig producer Rob Mutimer has been elected as the new chairman of the National Pig Association (NPA).

Farmers are being urged to help create a more accurate national picture of resistance to rodenticides in rats and mice.

An update on the animal rights activity targeting the pig sector has been published in the Members' Area. 

Defra, Welsh Government and Scottish Government have announced that the compulsory housing measures for poultry and captive birds are set to be lifted on March 31.

UK exports of pig meat halved in January, as shipments to the EU plummeted due to new Brexit checks and bureaucracy. 

NPA chief executive Zoe Davies has called for retailers to do more to support British pig producers as they continue to struggle with pigs backed up on farms.

The NPA has called on the Government to ensure there is a sufficient resource to facilitate and monitor the safe movement of breeding pigs in and out of the UK.

Following two weeks of encouraging increases, the EU-spec SPP recorded a marginal decline last week.