The wide gap between spot and contract prices has narrowed significantly with the news that spot bacon buyers were prepared to pay in the region of…
Month: February 2015
Copa-Cogeca has welcomed the opening of a pigmeat storage scheme by the European Commission (EC) as a “step in the right direction” but has also voiced…
Farmers and vets will soon be able to access up-to-date veterinary medicines information on their smart phones, as the result of a new service being developed…
The British pig industry has made huge strides in professionalism but is being “sold short by Brussels” in some areas, National Pig Association (NPA) chairman Richard…
Five new people have been elected to the National Pig Association (NPA) producer group after a vote in which slightly over 50% of producer members took…
Three new industry members have been elected to the National Pig Association (NPA) new Allied Industry Group, joining seven other existing members. The newcomers are Nick…
Danish Crown and Tican, Denmark’s two cooperative slaughterhouse companies, have agreed to merge, launching a membership and competition authority process to approve the decision. Tican, who…
An application by Midland Pig Producers to create Foston Pig Unit and Anaerobic Digestion Plant in Derbyshire has been refused by the Environment Agency (EA), after…
Auctioneer Peter Crichton has announced the sale on Saturday, March 28, of outdoor equipment from South Lynch Estates, Dorset, who have kept outdoors pigs on the…
British pig production is the most forward-looking in Europe, pig industry leaders will tell MEPs in Brussels on Thursday morning.A National Pig Association (NPA) team, headed…