Nine long-standing employees at agri-tech business Devenish are celebrating having successfully completed the firm’s first-ever apprenticeship programme. Based at the company’s Belfast animal feed mill and…
Month: December 2021
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has been confirmed in poultry or other captive birds at 38 premises in GB, with over 276 findings in wild…
The NFU is reiterating its call for urgent action to tackle fly-tipping on farmland, as new figures show the number of fly-tipping incidents in England rose…
Take home grocery sales fell by 3.8% over the 12 weeks to 28 November 2021 compared with 2020 according to the latest figures from Kantar. Sales…
Parliament’s all-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has expressed its “deep concern” about further government delays, announced last month, on implementing checks on food…
Four years after it launched its first robot for poultry producers, French agri-tech company Tibot Technologies has released a new model called the T-Moov. The design…
Six new cases of avian influenza have been confirmed in England over the past few days, bringing to 28 the number of cases in England. The…
Avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed on a mixed poultry premises near Crickhowell, Brecon and Radnorshire, Powys. The premises holds chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants, swans…
By Matt Donald, pig & poultry farmer, north Yorkshire With increasing signs our government would prefer to export our food production, combined with some supermarkets opting…
New guidance is being issued today for veterinary professionals who see wild birds and backyard poultry in practice, against the backdrop of several outbreaks of Avian…