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 ...

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez called on the European Commission and the rest of EU to reconsider the introduction of tariffs on electric cars (EVs) and prevent a trade war that could have ...

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