Two new series of AHDB stockman training courses are starting over the next fortnight. Stockman Development Scheme course starts on Wednesday, January 31. This series of workshops,…
Month: January 2018
Very little variation in pig prices with hopes that we may be ‘bumping along the bottom’Â with the German producer price holding firm and the SPP also…
A man walking his dog in the Forest of Dean has had his finger bitten off by a wild boar prompting more concerns about the spread…
Humanists UK is calling on the Government to go further with its legal definition of the ‘welfare needs of animals’. The current draft Bill makes no…
Lancashire farmer David Goodier, has seen an increase of more than two pigs weaned per sow per year, from 24.57 to 26.79, since he became an…
The latest EU pig slaughterings data from Eurostat confirms that UK pig meat production was rising towards the end of 2017 while the price of sows…
The latest figures from Defra indicate that production tightened up again in December. Clean pig slaughterings were 6% behind year earlier levels during the month, totalling…
Meeting 6 of the North-East Pig Monitor Farm Project will be held on Tuesday 30th January 2018 at Lochter Activity Centre, Oldmeldrum, Inverurie AB51 0DZ. Coffee…
The NPA has invited Wilfred Emmanuel Jones, aka the Black Farmer, to its next Producer Group (PG) to discuss antibiotic use and how the pig industry markets…
A key advisor to Michael Gove has promised to raise the pig industry’s concerns over public procurement with the Defra Secretary, following a visit to NPA…