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The Environment Agency is to pause the BAT requirement to report N & P emissions from livestock manures on permitted farms.

Farmers are urged to take part in a Defra-funded survey on the Payment-by-Results scheme, which will provide funds for animal welfare improvements.

Any producers considering entering for the 2022 National Pig Awards are urged to get their entries in as soon as possible. 

A group of YNPA members headed to Malvern on 15 June to Lallemand’s bacteria production facility.

Red Tractor is looking to recruit a Pigs Technical Manager on a fixed term contract as maternity cover.

NPA chief executive Zoe Davies has been awarded a Lifetime Fellowship of the NPA, in recognition of her huge contribution to the association and wider industry.

The NPA has called on the supply chain and Government to do more to support pig producers, as new data shows the extent to which the industry is contracting. 

A closer look at what each of the big retailers is doing to support the pig sector. 

Defra has announced more details about the new slurry storage grants that will be launched later this year, as part of the Farming Investment Fund.

In the latest issue of Pig World, Samantha Carmichael, MSD’s national veterinary key account manager, set out her ambitions as the new chair of Young NPA.