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The Smaller Abattoir Fund opens with £4 million available to support smaller red meat and poultry abattoirs across England.

• Updated: 13 December 2023

British cooked poultry meat will soon reach Japanese tables thanks to a new market access deal that will benefit UK farmers, meat processers and exporters.

• Updated: 27 October 2023

Regulation for written contracts will provide fairness and certainty for the sector

• Updated: 6 April 2023

Mexican market is now open for British pork for the first time, which means a potential boost of £50m over the first five years of trade.

• Updated: 2 September 2021

Consultation on future of gene editing to be launched by Environment Secretary at Oxford Farming Conference.

• Updated: 7 January 2021

UK beef to be served on US plates for first time in over 20 years, with first exports commencing from a Northern Irish facility.

• Updated: 30 September 2020

Good news for Welsh farmers who could see their beef served on Chinese dinner plates by the end of the year

• Updated: 18 June 2019

Cefas has been designated by the OIE as the Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Disease.

• Updated: 4 June 2019

Agreement is good news for Welsh farmers whose lamb already accounts for a third of total food and drink exports

• Updated: 10 January 2019