A £2,000 training grant is up for grabs for a newcomer to the poultry industry. The prize is being offered by Zoetis and the NFU in…
Month: September 2021
The Government’s lack of urgency to address ‘glaring holes’ in its post-Brexit provisions for the agri-food and livestock trade has left the UK at a competitive disadvantage, and could cause UK businesses to close.…
Steven Thompson has been appointed the new country representative of specialty chemicals group Lanxess, which supplies the poultry industry with products to enhance biosecurity on farm.…
Defra has announced new plans to allow breeders to use gene editing to produce more resistant, more nutritious and more productive crops and farm animals. Gene editing is…
The comedian George Egg is to be the face of this year’s British Egg Week, which will run from 4-10 October. British Lion Eggs said it…
Poultry producers and other industry stakeholders are being invited to take part in an event on 12 October to discuss the sector’s ambitions for net zero.…
The British Poultry Council has welcomed the Government’s decision to add poultry meat workers to the existing seasonal workers scheme. The poultry industry has faced serious pressure…
The Government is finding training for up to 4,000 people to become HGV drivers, as part of a package of measures announced to try and ease…
The number of temporary poultry workers permitted to travel to and work in the UK will increase in time for Christmas, the government announced on Sunday…
The UK’s food and farming sector has written to the Prime Minister asking him to implement as a matter of urgency a COVID recovery visa to allow…