A British pig sector trade mission, targeting the 100,000-tonne-a-year pigmeat market in the Philippines, identified “scope for expansion”, according to joint-organisers BPEX and UK Trade and…
Month: October 2014
Consumer concerns about food imported into the UK, especially meat, have increased in the past two years according to the latest “Food and You” survey, commissioned…
The cost of the UK’s 2001 foot and mouth outbreak would have been £20 million less if adaptive management methods had been used, according to new…
It would be “no surprise” to see a resumption of the downward trend in the EU breeding herd next year, according to a detailed review by…
Fields in England which are filled with solar panels, rather than crops or livestock, will cease to be eligible for CAP payments from January 2015, it…
A plan detailing how the UK pig industry might deal with antimicrobial usage is being drawn up for distribution as a consultation document, following an all-industry…
Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Elizabeth Truss has told Pig World that she believes China offers “big” market opportunities for British pork exporters, writes Colin Ley.…
A leading Canadian food sector executive has told Pig World that the EU will not be top of his country’s pork export list even when the…
MSD Animal Health has appointed the former head of its Poland and Baltics division, Albert Urbanek, to run its integrated livestock business unit (ILBU) in the…
The Russian trade ban will increasingly weigh on the pigmeat market, moving into 2015, especially in the EU, according to the latest pork quarterly report from…