Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world’s pork supply as African swine fever ravages Asia’s pig herds. Time magazine reported that…
Month: August 2019
Pig breeders in China, who have managed to keep fatal African swine fever off their farms since outbreaks began a year ago, are now set to…
A call for evidence, which will inform its new National Food Strategy, set to be published in 2020, has been opened by the government. In June, the government…
New research from the University of Warwick has pioneered an economic perspective on controlling livestock diseases. Focusing on Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), bovine TB (bTB)…
This week’s Slaughter Pig Marketing Summary, from Thames Valley Cambac, reported that trade continued to drift along with little direction offered by any of the majors.…
Taiwan has imposed African swine fever measures on the Philippines amid an alleged unreported case of the deadly pork disease in Bulacan and Rizal province. Manila…
Something of a two-tier trade is continuing to emerge with the gap between UK and EU pig prices continuing to widen. Although the latest SPP managed…
Russia has returned to being a net importer of pig meat. In the year to May, imports of pig meat (including offal) increased by over 50%…
UK clean pig slaughter reached 909,100 head in July, up 3% on the same month in 2018, although July 2019 did have an additional weekday compared…
Pig imports from Myanmar to Thailand will be banned for 90 days after the neighbouring country confirmed its first case of the African swine fever this…