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Month: February 2021
Keir Starmer will today promise to bring the Labour Party closer to rural and farming communities in the first Labour leader’s speech to the National Farmers’…
Poultry farm workers in Russia have contracted H5N8 avian influenza, in the first recorded cases of humans being affected by the virus. Anna Popova, the country’s…
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued a warning for consumers to take care when preparing and cooking frozen raw breaded chicken products at home, such…
Farming unions and the British Poultry Council have urged the government to work with the EU to align the two blocs’ sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards to…
The Scottish SPCA has seen rise in the number of birds arriving in its care. with 37 birds were admitted to rescue centres in December and January,…
The Ulster Farmers Union has expressed concern about the increase in backyard flocks in Northern Ireland, following the first confirmed incursions of avian influenza into the…
A group of leading retailers and foodservice companies have published an open letter expressing support for Red Tractor. The assurance scheme is currently reviewing its standards…
The British Egg Industry Council has said it will hold the Government to its commitment that there will be no lowering of animal welfare standards in…
The fourth annual ‘Mind Your Head’ week is being run by the Farm Safety Foundation, otherwise known as Yellow Wellies, to raise awareness of the issues…