Animal Health
Three men charged over pig abuse footage
Three men from Lincolnshire have been charged after undercover footage showed them kicking pigs in the face and head, often violently and repeatedly…
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Farmers achieve breakthrough in fight against 'indefensible' sheep dip fees
Coordinated action by the sheep sector has achieved a major breakthrough in the fight against "indefensible" sheep dip disposal fees. Work by the…
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EU paves way for landmark legislation seeking to slash farm antibiotic use
MEPs have backed plans to halt the spread of antibiotic resistance from livestock to humans in new legislation to come into force in 2022. The plans…
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UK and US trade deal 'needs to be based' on US pig standards
Any trade agreement with the UK and US post-Brexit needs to be based on US production practices, a major American pig group has said. The National…
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McDonald's £10,000 grant to help farmers purchase new equipment
Dairy farmers who supply Arla have just under a week left to apply for grants of up to £10,000 as part of McDonald's capital grant scheme. The fast…
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Total sales of livestock antibiotics at lowest level since 1993
Total sales of antibiotics for use in food-producing animals in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since 1993, new figures show. Sales of…
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Brexit could compromise farmers' biosecurity, Lords report says
The UK could lose access to EU alerts on animal and plant disease threats, which could in turn compromise farmers' biosecurity, a report has…
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New vaccine could help fight against major poultry disease
A new vaccine could help the fight against a highly contagious disease responsible for major economic losses in the poultry industry. The vaccine…
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Vets call on George Eustice to retract badger cull statement
Senior vets have called on Defra's Farming Minister to withdraw his statement claiming that badger culling lowered bovine TB cases in cull zones. In…
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Belgium spends €1m on cull to stamp out swine fever
The Belgium government has released €1m (£880m) for the culling of more than 4,000 commercial and domestic pigs in the African swine fever infected…
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