With Australia now open to pork imports, BPEX is taking part in a major exhibition Down Under to develop the market. Australia is a net importer…
Month: August 2013
The Staffordshire-based Packington Free Range brand has been awarded three highly sought after Great Taste stars. The Mercer family’s free-range pork stood out for the judges,…
A sigh of relief this week that none of the shout price buyers dropped their prices following Tulip’s lead to stand on, but it has to…
Nominations for the 2013 BPEX Trainee of the Year award will close on August 26, 2013. The award is open to all British pig unit personnel…
The pig production arm of the JSR Farming Group, a 4,000-sow operation producing 2,000 pigs/week, has increased the deadweight of its slaughter pigs and cut its…
Pig producers enjoyed their largest share of the retail price since the mid-1990s in July, taking 43%.According to BPEX figures, the DAPP averaged 168.6p/kg in July,…
EU pig slaughterings in May were over 2% down on the same month last year, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.Throughputs totalled 20.4 million head,…
Ladies in Pigs (Lips) chairwoman Sue Woodall is among three people shortlisted to become Yorkshire’s Champion and now she needs the industry’s votes. Up against two…
The NFU is urging the public to help turn around a decline in self-sufficiency that means the UK produces just 62% of its own food. Launching…
The esteem in which Tony Cook, who died in April aged 71, was held throughout the UK pig industry was reflected by the over-capacity attendance at…