“We all know that African Swine Fever is knocking at our door,” he said. “This data shows there are already biosecurity ...

After a turbulent decade of fluctuating prices and rising input costs, the UK pig industry has entered a period of relative ...

Average net pig margins nearly doubled to £13 per head in the third quarter of 2025, driven by a big fall in average costs of production, according to AHDB’s latest quarterly update. The full economic ...

Scottish Pigs Ltd, in collaboration with leading agricultural and veterinary partners, has announced the launch of Pig ...

The Oxford Sandy and Black Pig Group (OSBPG) has developed an African swine fever (ASF) contingency plan for breeders, ...

The PAC’s inquiry heard that Defra and the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA) have worked hard to manage the current ...

The Farm Animal Welfare Council in 2003, and the European Food Safety Authority in 2004 and 2020, have previously recommended ...

Researchers at the University of Reading have created new tool for measuring the economic value of farm animal welfare ...

Dr Paul Talling, biosecurity adviser at Livetec Systems, said: “Biosecurity measures must travel with the pigs through every ...

Importantly, usage of highest priority critically important antibiotics (HP-CIA), those also important in human medicine, ...

While Aldi remains the top performer overall, NFU Scotland notes that other retailers have also shown strong improvement, ...