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The first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Germany was found in a wild boar carcase near the Polish border last week

Essential oils have been used for their medicinal and flavouring properties for hundreds of years, but a new market is emerging within the livestock sector in pursuit of a replacement for prophylactic antibiotic therapy.

Male animals that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of elite donor animals could hold the key to genetically improving livestock of the future.

With a view to securing a viable business future for the historic Penllyn Estate Farm, the family partnership behind it has recently added a farm shop and kitchen to their interests. Gaina Morgan finds out

A farmer has been left ‘devastated’ at the loss of 2,000 pigs who were killed in a farm fire tragedy.

Flavian Obiero, 29, is a pig unit manager at Plumpton College in East Sussex.

Millers of Speyside, based in Grantown on Spey, will close for 14 days

The Welsh Conservatives have called for CCTV to become mandatory in abattoirs, branding the Government’s voluntary approach to date a ‘failure’.

There were warnings failing to obey rules could close marts at a critical time for the industry

The run of increasing pig prices has come to an end against a background of more supply and lower global prices.