Guidance: Keeping a pet pig or ‘micropig’

Find out how to register your land and animals, how to get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.

News story: Emergency pesticide authorisation approved to protect national sugar beet crop

National sugar beet crop could face serious losses due to risk from aphids – more than 50% of UK sugar comes from domestic production

Research: Newcastle disease in Europe

Preliminary outbreak assessment for Newcastle disease in Europe.

Decision: Neonicotinoid product as seed treatment for sugar beet: emergency authorisation application

The UK government issues, with strict conditions, emergency authorisation to use a product containing a neonicotinoid to treat sugar beet seed in England.

Impact assessment: Cruiser SB emergency registration report

These reports contain the Health and Safety Executive’s advice on the use of Cruiser SB on the UK’s sugar beet crops.