Government
Defra launches interactive map of bird flu mortality in wild birds
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a new interactive map of reported wild bird mortality...
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A recent report which showed that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra’s) IT systems are “outdated” has...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...
Government
King Charles will today (Thursday, March 9) visit the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in Weybridge to congratulate its...
Government
Field trials for a cattle vaccine and new skin test for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) have moved into the next phase,...
Pig/Poultry
The UK’s chief veterinary officer (CVO), Christine Middlemiss, has today (Tuesday, January 10) confirmed that there were five cases of...
Pig/Poultry
Three new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) were confirmed yesterday (Sunday, November 21). And, according to the...
Pig/Poultry
Five new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) have been confirmed by the Department for Environment, Food and...
Pig/Poultry
Nine new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) have been confirmed in England and Wales. Bird flu was...
Pig/Poultry
Four new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) have been confirmed in England. The outbreaks were confirmed yesterday...
Pig/Poultry
Six new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) have been confirmed in southeast England. According to the Department...
Pig/Poultry
Eight cases of avian influenza (bird flu) were confirmed across England and Wales over the weekend. The interim chief veterinary...