Coronavirus

The Royal Highland Show’s brand new Members’ Pavilion is to be used as a centre for Covid-19 vaccinations.

FOR almost a decade Farmers Guardian has sought to highlight the often shocking toll of dogs attacks on livestock via its Take the Lead campaign.

Businesses with a minimum of 50 employees can establish asymptomatic testing sites (ATSs) in the workplace, enabling staff to access free lateral flow devices (LFDs) and receive rapid Covid-19 results, Defra has said.

North-east of Scotland pig farmers, who would normally be supplying the Brechin abattoir in Angus are desperately trying to find accommodation two weeks’ worth of finished pigs.

Consumers feel more positive about British agriculture following a year of major change, according to a new report by AHDB

£2.2 million has been allocated to support Northern Irelands pig sector, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Minister Edwin Poots has announced.

A Covid-19 outbeak amongst the workforce has led to a two-week closure of Scotland’s only large scale pig abattoir at Brechin

Muller has ‘scaled down’ production at its Bridgwater dairy after a major Covid-19 outbreak where one worker died

Dairy farmers have been reminded to issue their employees with a Key Worker Travel Pass.

AHDB have taken a look at how long the dairy sector will cope with the third lockdown