The disease threat posed to the UK’s £350m pig export market by rising wild boar numbers in the Forest of Dean was one of the key…
Month: July 2015
Jim Moseley, whose career includes 12 years as sales and marketing director for Tulip, has been named as the new chairman of Assured Food Standards (AFS),…
Europe needs a “powerful export strategy” to deal with the desperate market situation currently facing EU farmers, Copa president, Albert Jan Maat, told visitors to a…
I often get asked about the cost of inserting a gilt pool into an existing farm premises cost and what the likely payback might be, but…
Yorkshire-based Cranswick plc has reported sales 8% higher in the three months to June 30, 2015, than they were in the same perod last year. Underlying…
An extraordinary meeting of the EU Agriculture Council has been scheduled for September 7 by the Luxembourg presidency, specifically to address the “growing concern” about the…
Wild boar numbers in the Forest of Dean are continuing to increase despite an annual culling programme, according to the latest survey carried out for the…
EU pig prices continued to fluctuate throughout June and early July but with no clear direction being established according to AHDB Pork. After reaching its highest…
Pig producers are going to have to wait a while for prices to firm says Quality Meat Scotland’s head of economics services, Stuart Ashworth. Basing his…
Thanks to a marginal improvement in the value of the euro, demand for finished pigs and culls sows was “no worse than last week” which is…