20th August 2010
Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones has launched a consultation on a draft legislative order to control TB in camelids, goats and deer.
17th August 2010
A ground-breaking vision for dairy cow welfare has been launched which identifies where the potential for further improvement exists.
13th August 2010
Adjustments are being made to bovine TB protocols as Scotland approaches the first anniversary of being declared officially TB free.
12th August 2010
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the Moredun Research Institute are a step closer to combating a stomach worm infection in sheep that costs UK farmers 80 million every year.
10th August 2010
The new Task Force on Farming Regulation has launched a new wide ranging consultation to try and improve approaches to regulation.
9th August 2010
The Daily Mail has published an article written by Matthew Watkinson concerning dairy farming and farm animal veterinary practice.
6th August 2010
VLA's Mycoplasma Group is to lead a three-year EMIDA research project funded by the European Commission.
4th August 2010
Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew MP, MLA has visited a practice in Irvinestown to see how technology is streamlining the process for Bovine Tuburcelosis (bTb) testing.
3rd August 2010
Compensation payable during August 2010, in England (and in Wales and Scotland for BSE only) for a bovine animal compulsorily slaughtered for disease control purpose, has been detailed on the Defra website.
3rd August 2010
Responding to Defra Minister Jim Paice MP's call for voluntary country of origin labelling, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has renewed its call for clearer animal welfare labelling across the EU.
29th July 2010
The IAH, an institute of the BBSRC, in partnership with the VLA, has been awarded 90,000 by Defra to analyse the threat posed to UK livestock and horses from insect- and tick-borne viruses.
28th July 2010
Businesses are being invited to tender for new government contracts for the collection, slaughter, salvage and disposal of cattle infected by bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the South West of England.