Unfortunately, signs that spot bacon prices were due for a revival proved to be somewhat wide of the mark with most spot bacon buyers having enough…
Month: March 2016
Data published by Defra in March 2016.
The new farm crisis package unveiled by the European Commission (EC) on Monday this week was neither bold nor decisive according the chair of the European…
Everything possible must be done to prevent African swine fever (ASF) spreading further across Europe, a high-ranking delegation from Estonia warned EU farm ministers in Brussels…
The new chair of Meat & Livestock Commercial Services Limited (MLCSL) is George Lyon, a former Scottish MEP and a past-president of NFU Scotland. MLCSL which…
The use of medicated feeds to treat farm animals must be better harmonised across the EU says the European Parliament (EP) agriculture committee, whose members have…
The discount supermarket, Aldi, has been praised by the National Pig Association (NPA) for its success in boosting sales of British pork. Already a 100% supporter…
Details of an acute salmonellosis outbreak, which initially resembled porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED), but thankfully wasn’t, are included in the “unusual diagnosis” section of the latest…
Prime Minister, David Cameron, has been challenged to take UK farmers’ problems seriously and urged to back policies that will deliver a solution. This was the…
Scotland’s pig herd grew by 2.7% in 2015, driven by an increase in breeding numbers, according to the country’s December 2015 survey results. Despite totalling almost…