The NPA has urged planners to consider the facts and ignore the scaremongering as they consider a proposal for a pig farm in Northern Ireland. The…
Month: August 2017
National Pig Association (NPA) chief executive Zoe Davies has been invited to the prestigious Women of the Year Lunch in London, in October. Zoe, who confessed…
Steve Winfield has left AHDB to join Hipra Animal Health’s UK Swine team. Mr Winfield (pictured left), who is based in East Anglia and will cover the south of…
Following some sharp declines throughout July, EU pig prices began to stabilise moving into August, according to AHDB analysis. The EU average pig reference price dropped…
A £1.7 million fund opens today for groups of farmers and organisations to bid for cash for large scale environmental projects in their area. The third…
The National Pig Association (NPA) is urging pig farmers to make their views known to Defra as it develops a new reporting system to replace the current…
A television series taking a close-up look at farming in the UK features pigs tonight. Tune in to the third episode of More 4’s ‘A Year…
In May EU pig meat production increased by 6% on the year to 2 million tonnes, according to latest data from the EU Commission. Despite the…
The NFU has announced it has bought agriculture energy consultancy FEC Energy. Currently FEC Energy provides help to farmers to buy and sell energy, generate heat…
At 44% the producer’s share of the retail pork price recorded a marginal gain (0.2 percentage points) on the month in July and is the largest…