Pig producers will feature more strongly than ever on the speaker list at BPEX’s Breed+3 Regional Producer Events next month.They will be discussing how they’ve got…
Year: 2013
The European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI), based at Aston University, Birmingham, is joining forces with farm energy consultants Greenwatt Technology to run a programme of free…
Tesco has announced it will provide the equivalent of seven million meals a year to more than 1,000 charities across the UK by strengthening its partnership…
The NPA has attacked the European Commission (EC) proposals that only the location of the last period of rearing, along with country of slaughter, be used on…
A new forum for pig-building and fixed-equipment suppliers has been formed, with eight companies represented. Facilitated by BPEX and chaired by Nigel Penlington, the first meeting…
Friday was another good day for sellers (better than the weather) with prices at positive stand-on levels and takers for pigs in all weight ranges.Although the…
If you haven’t started to prepare for the possibility of rodents moving into your pig buildings this autumn and winter, now’s the time to begin, according…
The NPA’s general manager, Zoe Davies, gave birth to a son early on Tuesday morning.Alexander Thomas Leach appeared at 02:06 weighing in at 7lb 3oz.Best wishes…
The latest UK farm holdings data from Defra shows there was a slight rise in the total number of pigs and pig holdings in the UK…
Farmers can now obtain funding to set up small anaerobic digestion (AD) plants under a government-funded loan scheme that opened today (October 10). The £3 million…