Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has announced that vets and farmers across the globe have reached the milestone of protecting more than 500 million pigs from the…
Year: 2013
The United States Department of Agriculture has been shut down, along with much of the US government, as part of a budget impasse in the US.…
The supply of finished pig in the US has been reportedly tighter in recent weeks, but is this actually the case? According to economist Chris Hurt…
The NPA has warned that a disease outbreak in the British pig herd could cost producers up to 40p/kg and plunge the industry deep into the…
Although the DAPP has hit a new high of 170.51p and UK pigs remain in demand, ominous signs are emerging from the other side of the…
Figures for July published by HMRC show that UK pork imports were down 3% on the year at 28,800 tonnes, but exports rose sharply with a…
The latest AHDB/BPEX provisional estimates show that the average cost of pig production fell further in September as spot feed prices continued to ease.Average costs during…
The results of the June 2013 Agricultural census reveal that the English breeding herd has decreased during the past year, although the June figures do represent…
Auctioneer Peter Crichton reported a large turn out of more than 100 buyers from many parts of East Anglia, the West Country and the North when…
The shareholders of Smithfield Foods Inc have voted to approve a plan to sell the world’s largest pork producer and processor to Chinese company Shuanghui. The…