Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have generated a nearly complete genome assembly for an in-bred domestic pig breed, ...

The Pilgrim’s UK Pork Business posted a £39.5m profit for FY23, continuing the turnaround for the business after several year ...

France is considering building a fence on its border with Germany to keep out wild boar and prevent a devastating African ...

The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) has warned that inconsistent post-Brexit veterinary controls and the ...

A new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has formed with a focus on the pig and poultry sectors.

The focus during the last event was on swine influenza, porcine circovirus (PCV2) and porcine reproductive and respiratory ...

UK clean pig slaughterings, at 872,000 head, were down 0.6% on August 2023, while pigmeat production, at 80,000t, was 0.5% ...

Nearly £1 million of public money has been paid to a pig farmer to stop rearing pigs to enable 1,400 new homes to be built in ...

NFU president Tom Bradshaw described confirmation of a huge underspend on the agriculture budget by Defra over the past three ...

Beans are a more typical raw material in a pig diet than, for example, poultry feed, but there remains a need to look at ...

The third echoes the calls made by the NFU to ensure there are no changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR). We believe ...

Streptococcus suis is a bacterial infection that can cause serious, and often fatal, disease in pigs that can also be ...