Goose producers are reporting a strong demand with orders well up on this time last year. “Goose sales are going well,” said John Franklin, chairman of…
Month: December 2017
Parliamentary select committee hearings bear more than a passing resemblance to a courtroom trial, and so it was that Ranjit Boparan found himself in the dock…
By David Burrows In July, three of the UK’s leading food policy experts published research showing how the country could “sleepwalk into a food crisis” following…
A raft of changes due to come into force on 1 January 2018 will simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Union has said. Major…
Poultry farmers’ ability to modernise, adapt and evolve their businesses could be curbed by huge increases in administrative costs, in proposed changes to Environment Agency permit…
A new law will ensure animal abusers are jailed for up to five years and animal sentience is reflected in domestic law, under plans published by…
A 3 km Protection Zone and a 10 km Surveillance Zone have been established around a poultry premise in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands due to confirmation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. The…
After a slow start to Christmas grocery shopping following a mild November and the distraction of Black Friday, it’s anticipated that a record £4.2 billion will be…
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has begun a consultation on the authorisation of the use of alternative systems for the disinfection of cutting tools in abattoirs…
Christine Middlemiss, an experienced veterinarian, will take over from current CVO Nigel Gibbens who is stepping down at the end of February after 10 years in…