Consumers are choosing chicken over pork and other meats, in part a reaction to promotions being slashed in retailers, according to the latest figures from Kantar…
Month: September 2017
The latest monthly update on the Scottish meat market from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has revealed that farmgate prices for pigs have eased off, following consistent…
Although the SPP only fell by 0.49p to 164.17p, spot sellers found they were in a distinctly colder climate, with most buyers already ‘full’Â with pigs from…
Ian Campbell, director of pigs at the National Fallen Stock Company, explores biosecurity and IT options to add value to porcine by-product material BSE is naturally…
Up until recently, Alice and Bob were unknown, other than to the techies behind the scenes at Facebook. Then Alice and Bob were asked to have…
Premium pork, sausages, ham and bacon plus beef and lamb from Britain will be heading to Hong Kong next week for one of the leading fine…
I can’t believe how fast time is marching on – hopefully you have all managed to dodge the rain and finished harvest without encountering mycotoxin issues!…
Negotiations to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) started on 16 August as a result of changes demanded by the Trump administration. The National…
In his latest Pig World column, Russian journalist Vladislav Vorotnikov provides a detailed update of the situation with African swine fever in Eastern Europe. African swine…
Not many years ago, the idea of sending pigs’ trotters all the way to China would have seemed faintly ridiculous. But trotters, effectively a by-product here,…