Livestock Business News

Popular UK restaurants serve dishes made from imported meat, failing to support British farmers and not doing enough to prevent misuse of antibiotics, a new investigation by the Soil Association has revealed. 

The decision to close Smithfield meat market could make it more expensive and less efficient to supply meat to London SMEs.

AgroVision has announced that its cloud-based program, Dairy Analytics, is now available in the UK.

In 2023/24, average farm business income was lower for all farm types except for specialist pig farms and specialist poultry farms, Defra has just revealed. 

A Scottish company has been fined £80,000 after an agricultural engineer sustained a fractured skull at its site in Glasgow. 

A Scottish dairy, Mossgiel Organic Farm, has launched what it claims is the most natural chocolate milk on the market, called ‘brown cow milk’.  

Farmers have been warned that RSPCA Assured will ‘significantly’ increase the number of announced and unannounced farm visits, following a review of the scheme. 

The farming community has been warned that the recent proposal to increase fees paid by abattoirs could have a catastrophic impact on small and medium businesses. 

The British meat industry is warning that beef exports can be “ceased overnight” as Defra is failing to comply with the EU’s new regulations. 

After more than a decade of campaigning by the NFU and other UK farming unions and calling out unfair practices in the dairy supply chain, new legislation on dairy contracts has come into force. 

A radical animal rights group, Animal Rising, now says it has no plans for a ‘mass open rescue’ from RSPCA Assured farms this summer.

The return of the British Pig and Poultry Fair brought a lively and enthusiastic cohort of exhibitors, farmers, breeders and innovators together. Sarah Juggins reports.