16+ hour, 26+ min ago  (777+ words) Specialist Norfolk scientists have advised sugar beet growers how to minimise crop virus risks this spring - and revealed the experimental ideas which could help them in the future. Earlier this month, researchers published a worrying forecast which estimates 62pc of the…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (398+ words) A Norfolk MP says new genetic "precision breeding" technologies could help protect poultry against the devastating bird flu outbreaks sweeping through the region's farms. The return of the virus this autumn has forced the cull of farmed birds including thousands…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (522+ words) Poultry farmers have welcomed a government decision to order flocks indoors after the latest bird flu outbreak near Lakenheath. Flocks will be in lockdown across 21 counties - including Suffolk and Norfolk - from tomorrow. The counties affected span the entire north of…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (314+ words) Plans for a major poultry farm capable of housing up to 335,000 birds at a time'and producing around 2.4 million chickens a year'have been approved. The development, on land at Shrubbs Farm in Edgefield, near Holt, was given the go-ahead by North…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago  (269+ words) A Norfolk auctioneering firm'where a young Bernard Matthews bought his first turkeys is set to hold its first live poultry auction for 30 years. Keys Auctioneers in Aylsham is holding a "single vendor" poultry auction next Saturday, June 28. Around 300 chickens, ducks,…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (267+ words) More than a dozen seals have been found dead after a second incident of bird flu has hit the north Norfolk coast, scientists have said. Government scientists found that the virus had been detected in ... Bird flu detected in 15 dead…...