At 771,700 head, UK clean pig slaughterings in June increased by 4% compared with the same month in 2013. This was the largest year-on-year growth in…
Month: July 2014
We live in a truly amazing and rapidly changing world – and for many of the older generation, things change far too rapidly, writes Stuart Lumb.…
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has announced a strong line-up for its annual conference. Agribusiness 2015, which takes as its theme ‘Growing the sustainable agrisupply chain’,…
The BPEX board has confirmed that the final Deadweight Average Pig Price (DAPP) will be published on Wednesday, October 1, for the week ending Saturday, September…
Central Government has committed to buying fresh, locally sourced, seasonal food from 2017 through a new, simplified food and drink buying standard. Announcing the move as…
With feed representing the major cost of pig production – as much as 70% in some countries – the relationship between feed usage and productivity was…
Something of a buyers’ market is emerging as far as finished and store pigs are concerned, with pigmeat imports still posing a major threat to the…
NFU president Meurig Raymond was in Strasbourg on Wednesday (July 15) to rally support from MEPs to sign the ‘Back British Farming EU pledge.’ By signing…
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has announced that Dr Bert Lambooij DVM, of the Animal Science Group, Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, has won its 2014…
There have been significant falls in barley straw prices in some parts of Britain in the past week as the barley harvest got underway in earnest.…