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Increasing numbers of domestic livestock and more resource-intensive production methods are encouraging animal epidemics around the world according to new assessments reported at the International Conference on Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition & Health.
The RSPCA is warning that a proposed badger cull could end up costing farmers more than an outbreak of bovine TB on their farm, in advance of the NFU conference in Birmingham due to be held this week.
Pfizer is reminding vets that they can help farmers who are having problems as a result of incorrect or absent animal identification records, using DNA technology.
The South West Regional Development Agency has committed 12.17m of European Development Funding over three years to a project named 'The South West Healthy Livestock Initiative' (SWHLI).
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a consultation on proposals to reduce the frequency of hygiene inspections on dairy farms in England and Wales.
According to the Welsh government, recently released monthly bovine TB statistics show a reduction in the number of cattle slaughtered in Wales in 2010.
The inaugural meeting of the Veterinary Development Council (VDC) heard perspectives on the role of the veterinary profession in food animal production and the wider food supply chain from industry, government and private veterinary practice.
International experts are to meet to discuss ways of combating porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) - a fast mutating virus affecting pig herds.
The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on draft legislation to require farmers with breeding herds to test for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD).
The VLA is to increase surveillance for PCV2 virus as a cause of reproductive failure in cases of abortion and stillbirth where no other infectious cause has been identified.
