Pig producers know that the colder months typically herald an increased risk of respiratory disease for their herds, and this is backed up by data from…
Year: 2013
One of the UK’s closest pig-producing neighbours, Ireland, has launched a new Pig Research and Advisory Programme that wll be funded by a producer levy. Run…
It wll come as little surprise to anyone that the second provisional estimates from the HGCA’s 2013 Cereal Quality Survey show a significant improvement in the…
Digging a little deeper into the latest physical performance figures for English pig herds, BPEX knowledge transfer manager Angela Cliff says there have been some great…
The agricultural press has been reporting that the price of land has trebled in the past decade and values in the region of £10,000/acre are now…
For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Lizzie Press and I’ll be taking over as NPA general manager while Zoë Davies is away on…
The nights may be drawing in, but as we’re now coming into a period of better-quality raw materials, there’s no better time to focus on key…
The United States meat-packing industry has had to change the way it sets prices for slaughter pigs after the US Government shutdown stopped the publication market…
Results from the June 2013 Agricultural Census published by The Scottish Government show the pig herd has shrunk by 12.1% in the past year, with total…
The 2014 Outlook Conference, jointly hosted by BPEX, DairyCo and EBLEX, will be held at One Great George Street in London on Wednesday, February 12, 2014.The…