Selling pork to UK consumers could soon become more challenging due the major multiples moving away from multi-buy offers and Y for X promotions in favour…
Month: August 2016
Danish Crown has stopped evening shift working at its slaughterhouse in Ringsted, Denmark, due to a “renewed decline in the supply of pigs for slaughter”, sacking…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has finally reached its verdict on Russia’s early-2014 import ban on live pigs, fresh pork and other pig products from the…
A warning to treat the most recent Defra figures with some “caution” as they relate to UK clean pig slaughterings, is included in AHDB Pork’s analysis…
The number of wild boar in England is estimated to have increased by 50% in the past year, prompting a warning from the National Pig Association…
Fierce competition and food deflation have been highlighted as the key reasons behind a 7.5% drop in sales at Asda during the past three months, registering…
New UK retail sales figures show a higher than expected increase in July of 5.9%, prompting an immediate lift to the strength of the pound. The…
The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) says it can’t explain why pig prices in Ireland have fallen “so far behind” the EU average in recent weeks. Currently…
EU pork exports achieved another record high in June, hitting a total of 236,800 tonnes, according to AHDB Pork. This was 70% up on June 2015,…
Chinese farm leaders and policymakers have just completed a visit to the US to examine the management and recycling methods for untreated manure, an issue which…