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Further measures to combat bovine TB confirmed by Environment Secretary.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Details of the workshop to discuss the European proposals for revised law on medicated feeds.
Highlighting the animal health UK Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Summit.
Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss speech to the Northern Farming Conference
Badger culls resume in Somerset and Gloucestershire as part of government's comprehensive strategy to make England TB free.
A new badger vaccination scheme has been launched today as part of the government’s comprehensive strategy to make England bovine TB free.
Natural England today confirmed that all the criteria have been met to allow the second of four years of badger culling to start in west Gloucestershire and west Somerset, to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB).
A consultation proposing further measures to strengthen our bovine TB cattle controls has been launched today.
Every year during April, Public Health England sees a rise in cases of a diarrhoeal illness caused by a bug called cryptosporidium.
A comprehensive Strategy to achieve TB free status in England by 2038 has been announced by Environment Secretary Owen Paterson today.
The Prime Minister's Deputy Spokesperson (DPMS) answered questions on the Queen, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Harriet Harman, European reform, legal highs and badgers.
George Eustice speech to the National Farmers Union Conference: 'Backing the business of British Farming', 25 February 2014
Badger cull pilot in Gloucestershire ends this weekend
The cull company and Natural England agreed to stop the cull on Saturday 30 November.
Farmers who allow TB tests on cattle herds to become overdue will face cuts to farming subsidies under a zero tolerance approach announced by Defra.
The pilot badger cull in Somerset has ended
Natural England have approved an application for an eight week extension to the badger cull in Gloucestershire
The badger cull in Gloucestershire ended this week. The cull company has applied for an extension to Natural England.
Application to extend the Somerset badger cull pilot has now been approved.
The badger cull pilot cull in Somerset has finished. An application has been submitted by the company for a short extension.
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