Cattle

More than 1,000 Romanian farmers took part in a protest on Thursday in Bucharest, demanding more subsidies from the government and expressing fears that the EU decision to scrap milk production quotas will ruin them.

Bulgaria has been plagued by a lasting downward trend in milk prices for a 12 month in a row and needs a quick solution to cope with the situation in the dairy sector, according to Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Foods is set on providing more funds for stock breeders, without requirements on the number of animals or what their kind should be, as announced in a press release on Tuesday.

The statement was m?de by Minister Desislava Taneva at the sitting of the Advisory Council on Stock Breeding.

Two vets are to stand trial in Thessaloniki after being accused by a cattle farmer that they asked for a 30,000-euro bribe in order to sign off the slaughter of his diseased herd.
The 42-year-old breeder had asked for certification that his cows had contr... ...

Citing disease outbreaks, Russia’s food safety watchdog announced fresh restrictions on imports of livestock and beef from southern Europe on Wednesday – seen as a response to Western sanctions imposed over Moscow’s Ukraine policy.

A real-time Internet livestock auction in the eastern Turkish province of Erzurum will be founded to increase opportunities for trade in livestock and animal products such as meat, milk, wool and leather.

Two Australians and a Spaniard were gored Monday in the final and longest bull run of this year's San Fermin festival as it wound up in Spain's northern city of Pamplona.