
Pig/Poultry
Disease-resistant pigs approved for sale in US
Pigs produced to be resistant to one of the world’s most costly livestock diseases, using technology developed by the Roslin...
Pig/Poultry
Pigs produced to be resistant to one of the world’s most costly livestock diseases, using technology developed by the Roslin...
Pig/Poultry
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has today (Wednesday, April 30) called for a ban on the use of farrowing crates...
Pig/Poultry
By Chris McCullough It takes an entire day to feed all the pigs reared in the great outdoors on a...
Pig/Poultry
The female pig breeding herd is down 2.2% to 251,000 head compared to 2023, the smallest number on record. The...
Pig/Poultry
Some 3,500 pigs have to be culled after an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) at a fattening farm in...
N.Ireland
By Chris McCullough In an idyllic region of southern Spain seemingly unaffected as yet by climate change, a special breed...
Pig/Poultry
A fire in a Co. Tyrone farm resulted in the death of a number of pigs, despite the best efforts...
Agri-Business
A Yorkshire-based ice cream manufacturer will begin supplying Aldi with pigs in blankets ice cream from today (Tuesday, December 19),...
Pig/Poultry
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected a human case of a flu virus which is currently circulating in...
Agri-Business
Staffordshire Police has appealed for information regarding the theft of nine pigs from a farm in Lichfield in two separate...
Agri-Business
The National Pig Association (NPA) is urging those importing live pigs or semen to only source from herds negative for...
N.Ireland
A Belfast man has been convicted of one charge of causing unnecessary suffering to three pigs and one charge of...
Pig/Poultry
The UK’s chief veterinary officer (CVO), Christine Middlemiss, has today (Tuesday, January 10) confirmed that there were five cases of...
Other
A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for arson attacks on three farms, resulting in the deaths...
N.Ireland
A family of spotted pigs have been given their own reality TV series that aims to expose “the scam of...
N.Ireland
Researchers from Yale University in the US have successfully restored cellular and organ function in pigs a full hour after...
Pig/Poultry
Lincolnshire Trading Standards has removed 225 pigs from a farm it deemed to be a high-risk premises. An investigation, warranted...
N.Ireland
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Martin Heydon, has announced a grant award...