Pig production costs in Great Britain last year were higher than in most other major producing countries, including all of the main export suppliers of pork…
Month: November 2013
Apologies if your weekly email newsletter from Pig World didn’t turn up this afternoon (Thursday).The email gremlins have struck and a number were returned undelivered.Those addressed…
Tests carried out by the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) have shown that more than half the bacon on retailers shelves with labelling suggesting it was home-produced…
Belfast-based agri‐technology company Devenish Nutrition has further increased its presence in the GB market by opening a food-grade premix manufacturing facility at Widnes, Cheshire. The new…
Tesco has launched a new initiative aimed at supporting the next generation of British farmers. The retailer’s Future Farmer Foundation has been established to help bright,…
Members of the Freedom Food scheme are being given the chance to give their feedback on the development of the RSPCA’s welfare standards for farm animals.…
BPEX master butcher Keith Fisher has been helping out behind the scenes of the new four-part BBC programme Nigel and Adam’s Farm Kitchen.The programme features Nigel…
Food and Farming Minister George Eustice will address representatives from the beef, lamb, pork and dairy supply chains when he opens the AHDB Outlook 2014 conference…
Pig producers can find out how new sow feeding systems have been performing on-farm in the next BPEX Live online workshop on Monday, November 25. Between…
Something of two tier trade is developing, and although weekly contract prices all remained at similar levels with Gills at 172p and Tulip at 168p, as…