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Monday, February 5, 2024
Plans for Wales, UK chicken farms await ministerial action after year-long pause
Plans for the establishment of 12 chicken farms in Powys, Wales, UK, are still in limbo, awaiting a decision nearly a year after the Welsh government imposed a pause on the applications, Wales Farmer reported.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Pork prices soar in India, swine farms face shortage amid ASF scare
Pork prices have surged in India, up INR 100 (US$1.20) to INR 350 (US$4.21) per kg, due to a shortage of larger swine in farms and the spread of African swine fever (ASF), Daiji World reported.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Aleph Farms receives world's first regulatory approval for cultured beef
Israel has issued the world's first regulatory approval for cultured beef, made by Aleph Farms under the brand name Aleph Cuts, Warp News reported.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Dairy authority to drive Philippines' milk sufficiency through stock farms set up on ancestral lands
The Philippines' National Dairy Authority (NDA) has partnered with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to build stock farms in the country as it aims to increase domestic milk sufficiency by 5% in four years.
Monday, January 8, 2024
UK university looks into livestock farms as possible sources of resistant infections in animals
The University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom said livestock farms are being studied as potential sources of resistant infections in animals and humans.
Monday, January 8, 2024
Arla's new customer initiatve to push sustainability efforts on farms
Dairy company Arla has launched a new customer programme that will not only advance sustainability efforts on farms, but also assist customers in reaching their scope 3 reduction targets.
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Recommendations by researchers focus on disease risks posed by mixed pig/poultry farms in UK
Recommendations have been published by researchers from UK and Australian universities for the reduction of the disease risks posed to public health by intensive pig and poultry farms that are situated in close proximity to each other.
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Pancreatic disease spreading in northern Norway fish farms
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has announced another case of pancreatic disease (PD) at a fish farm in the northern part of the country, Fish Farmer reported.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Smithfield Foods terminates contracts with 26 swine farms, citing oversupply
In response to the ongoing challenges posed by industry oversupply, Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor, has terminated its contracts with 26 swine farms in Utah, United States, Yahoo! Finance reported.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
EU's updated Industrial Emissions Directive to cover farms with certain numbers of livestock units
Negotiators of the European Parliament and the European Council have reached a provisional agreement on the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the Waste Landfill Directive and the new regulation on the industrial emiss ...
Thursday, November 16, 2023
US FDA to remove common veterinary drug from pork farms amid human cancer concerns
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aims to withdraw a widely used veterinary drug employed by US pork farms from the market, prompted by apprehensions that the drug, carbadox, may present a cancer risk to humans consuming ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Indigenous leaders urge Canada to commit to shift from open-net salmon farms
Indigenous leaders from British Columbia, Canada, have called on the Canadian federal government to stand by plans to transition away from open-net salmon farms, but an industry spokesperson has suggested the leaders were wading into politi ...
Friday, November 10, 2023
New farming techniques in Vietnam slash greenhouse gas emissions in shrimp farms
New agricultural methods in Vietnam have successfully reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by nearly 17% in extensive shrimp farms and almost 11% in intensive farms, according to research conducted on monitoring GHG emissions from shrimp ...
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Salmon farms in Iceland face welfare crisis amid sea lice outbreak
Images of severely diseased and dying salmon at an Icelandic fish farm have surfaced, revealing what a veterinary expert describes as an "animal welfare disaster" of unprecedented magnitude, The Guardian reported.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Egg farms in Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, hit by avian flu this fall
Seven egg farms in Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, have been hit by an outbreak of avian flu.

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