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The Livestock Information Programme (LIP) has published a new five-minute YouTube video explaining more about the programme. 

Frustrated producers had the opportunity to quiz AHDB last night at the NPA meeting in Diss about what may have caused last week’s drop in SPP.

Jimmy and Ali Butler, who manage Blythburgh Free Range Pork in Suffolk, have just appeared in an episode of BBC’s Fake Britain which featured a case of food fraud where two Nottinghamshire men were convicted of selling EU pork as local free range produce to an unsuspecting public.

The UK’s listed status application has been agreed by European Union (EU) Member States after it met the animal health and biosecurity assurances required for a third country to export live animals and animal products.

We are continuing to look at new product development in the latest phase of the Pork Report - keep sending in your findings. 

NFU Mutual, responding to our customer’s needs.

As the threat of African Swine Fever (ASF) to the UK pig production industry heightens, following the continued spread of the disease globally and most recently into Western Europe. Our NFUM agency network have started to express that demand exists in the UK for an ASF insurance solution. National Intermediary Services (part of the NFU Mutual) role is to seek to administer insurance solutions which fit outside of the NFU Mutual core risk appetite with the Insurance market and/or arrange bespoke insurance solutions.

Former NPA chairman Richard Longthorp sets out his vision for making farming a more attractive career proposition for young people.

The NPA is stressing the need for producers to prepare fully for Red Tractor audits as non-conformances can have serious consequences for scheme members.

In his latest Brexit round-up, Ed Barker tries to make sense of the latest goings on in Westminster... and offers his Grand National tips. 

A Defra Minister has acknowledged the need for a clearer strategy for managing feral boar in the Forest of Dean.