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.  

 Corriere della Sera once again took it out on animal husbandry, accused of being one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions.