Agri-Business
APHA appoints new lead non-executive director
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has today (Monday, February 26) appointed a new lead non-executive director. Elizabeth Buchanan’s...
Agri-Business
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has today (Monday, February 26) appointed a new lead non-executive director. Elizabeth Buchanan’s...
Pig/Poultry
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed a case of avian influenza (bird flu) in commercial...
Agri-Business
A partner in a poultry company has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £28,000 for offences relating to...
Agri-Business
The use of PCR tests for bovine tuberculosis will have an expanded rollout, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)...
Environment
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is seeking a senior scientific officer to lead in its discipline of wildlife...
Pig/Poultry
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has today (Friday, January 19) won a legal challenge in a battle over compensation payable...
Other
Farmers in England’s southeast and it’s surrounding areas have been urged to be vigilant for bluetongue virus (BTV) on their...
Agri-Business
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) have lit up their headquarters to raise...
Government
Sales of veterinary antibiotics in the UK are at the lowest level ever recorded, according to a report published by...
Government
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a new interactive map of reported wild bird mortality...
Sheep
The sheep pox virus and the goat pox virus affect sheep and goats and, according to the Animal Plant and...
Arable
Colorado potato beetle larvae has been found in Kent for a second time, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...
Government
An extra £2.35 million in funding has been allocated for the research of diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks. The...
Agri-Business
A recent report which showed that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra’s) IT systems are “outdated” has...
Other
Two South West farmers have been banned from keeping animals following separate investigations by the Animal and Plant Health Agency...
Other
A farmer from St Bernard in Cornwall has been banned from keeping farmed animals for life after failing to provide...
Pig/Poultry
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have reduced the...
Beef
Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) is urging livestock farmers to investigate all unexplained abortions or stillbirths in their herds or...