The Royal Society, which includes many of the world’s most eminent scientists, has launched a “fact-based” Q&A-style guide that is intended to answer the questions that…
Month: May 2016
The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has applauded a 3p a kilo pig sector price rise introduced by “southern factories” while remaining sharply critical of other processors…
Pigmeat exports from EU member states increased by more than a quarter in the first three months of this year compared with the same period in…
Revenues at Cranswick plc increased by 6.6% to £1,069.6 million and overall sales volumes were up by 12% in the year ended March 31, 2016, according…
EU pigmeat production is continuing to register a slowdown in growth, supporting forecasts that supplies will begin to tighten throughout the year, according to AHDB Pork.…
Aberdeenshire farmer, Sandy Ingram, is gearing up to use next month’s Taste of Grampian event to showcase his home-cured pork, continuing a direct selling approach which…
The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced the release of three collaborative grants, totalling £9.5m, for use in research to help combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Taken…
Pig farmers are being encouraged to talk to their veterinary surgeons about making use of two free tests relating to swine influenza and oedema disease, with…
English pig producers and the allied industry are being invited to join a “first-of-its-kind” Focus Farm initiative unveiled by AHDB Pork in a move to help…
Pig producers in Northern Ireland (NI) are being squeezed between rising feed costs and a failure by processors to deliver a meaningful price increase, says the…