An urgent call has been voiced by European Union dairy farmers to the European Commission to activate a voluntary milk-reduction scheme to help avoid a dairy crisis. With markets flooded with milk, prices are collapsing under the strain, forcing farmers into heavy financial difficulties.

A huge row recently erupted regarding beef imported into Ireland and other European Union countries from Brazil, because part of the shipment contained banned growth hormones. It’s been confirmed that 128 kilograms of the beef was from animals that had been treated with oestradiol, a growth-…

After several years of trying to curtail the rapid spread of foot-and-mouth disease across South Africa, the livestock sector there is now in crisis. South Africa lost its foot-and-mouth-disease-free status in 2019, but is now fighting a severe outbreak that emerged in 2021 and shows no sign…

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A new deal to supply Irish lamb to top-class restaurants across the United States was recently approved and sealed, with the first shipment already landed.