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The National Disease Information Service (NADIS) has warned of the risk of liver fluke disease in parts of the UK and recommended farmers take action now to protect their animals.
Wales' Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones has congratulated the billion pound a year red meat sector in Wales on its efforts in helping the Welsh economy.
New support for farmers to help them deal with the impacts of bovine TB, and reduce the risks of further outbreaks, has been announced by Agriculture Minister Jim Paice.
A new 2.4m Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health and Food Safety has been officially opened at the University of Glasgow's School of Veterinary Medicine.
Agriculture Minister Jim Paice has said that British consumers deserve to see only eggs from hens kept in better welfare cages on supermarket shelves once the EU-wide 2012 "battery" cage ban comes in.
VLA and the University of Liverpool Veterinary Parasitology Research Group are offering a faecal egg count reduction test to assess the efficacy of the flukicide triclabendazole (TCBZ) in sheep flocks.
A deadly viral disease which broke out in Tanzania earlier this year risks spreading to Southern Africa, posing a mortal threat to more than 50 million sheep and goats in 15 countries, the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN) has warned.
Speaking at the Two-Tonne Sow (2TS) Focus on Breeding events, Dutch pig expert Dr Nicoline Soede showed how removing stress in gilts and sows is key to good reproductive performance.
Wales' Rural Affairs Minister, Elin Jones, is urging animal keepers and owners to respond to the Assembly Government's consultation on new proposals to control TB in camelids, goats and deer before it closes on 11 November.
A major national exercise involving Animal Health, Defra, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and key operational partners, is to test Government's ability to deal with a significant outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).
