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The Red Tractor pigs board has accepted a request by the NPA producer group to allow more time for scheme members to submit data onto the eMB-Pigs database.

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.

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.

The use of prescribed antibiotics administered in feed for young pigs has halved over the past three years, figures released by RUMA suggest.

Antibiotic data representing more than half the 2015 UK pig herd has now been loaded onto the eMB-Pigs database.   

The NPA has welcomed the findings of a ground-breaking report on animal welfare data covering nearly 5.5 million pigs over three years.

The NPA has welcomed an assessment by the FSA confirming that the risk of foodborne-illness from Livestock-Associated (LA) MRSA is 'very low'.