Veterinary experts have drawn attention to the deterioration of yet another critical state-owned enterprise, Onderstepoort Biological Products.

With our economy effectively in intensive care after the Covid-19 devastation, one sector is providing most of the new employment and is in fact one of the few sectors showing growth. This is agriculture.

The Dutch government has unveiled a €25bn (£21bn) plan to radically reduce the number of livestock in the country as it struggles to contain an overload of animal manure.

High-quality eggshells are a prerequisite for first-grade eggs and production economics.

In 1928, microbiologist Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin was hailed as a scientific breakthrough. In the nearly 100 years since then, scientists have discovered numerous other antibiotics that have saved billions of lives.

Cattle and other livestock farmers have had a bumper year raking in huge profits, partly thanks to high weaner prices.