Animals Farmed: Mink Covid cull, Dutch livestock protests and net zero farms

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the webEuropean farmers are on alert after recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza among wild and domestic birds in western Russia and Kazakhstan. When bird flu was detected in the same area of Russia in the summers of 2005 and 2016, epidemics followed in northern and eastern Europe. EU officials have warned poultry producers to step up surveillance against possib