The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) believes that the interests of British farmers are best served by the UK’s continuing membership of the European Union. While stressing…
Month: April 2016
Irish farming leaders have called for the setting up on all-industry pig forum to help the industry through “one of the worst crises in decades”. “This…
A new report, indicating that Triticale is capable of competing with wheat in terms of both yield and profitability, could be good for the pig sector,…
Pigmeat will be one of the key products on the agenda during this week’s visit to China and Japan by EU farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, accompanied…
UK pigmeat production recorded a 5% year-on-year increase in March, reaching a total of 79,800 tonnes, according to AHDB Pork. Based on the latest figures from…
AHDB master butcher advisor, Keith Fisher, has retired from the levy board after over 40 years to the meat industry. “Since 1974, when he joined what…
There is now only one more week to get your entries in for the 2016 Pig World New Product Award, which will be judged and presented…
Although the SPP put on a modest 0.31p and now stands at 112.86p, prices are still 15p to 20p/kg adrift of breakeven levels for most producers.…
It’s a fact of life that livestock farmers have to deal with a degree of mortality within their herds and flocks. And pig producers, simply because…
Chancellor George Osborne has warned that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will become an even deadlier threat to mankind than cancer is today unless there is coordinated global…