The lack of EU support for pigmeat producers since the Russian market closed to the sector in January has been condemned by Europe’s farming unions as…
Month: November 2014
EU pig slaughterings in August were 4% higher compared with a year earlier, when assessed on a working day basis, according to BPEX. Quoting the latest…
Tracy West gets the immediate reactions of the winners of the inaugural National Pig Awards, presented at London’s Royal Garden Hotel on November 4. More than…
Details of a new pulled pork promotion campaign, to be run in Spring 2015, will be outlined during the five-venue BPEX regional producer events, starting later…
The latest step in helping to make AHDB a more “cost-efficient and effective organisation” for levy payers has been completed with the Board’s 325-strong staff now…
During the past six months I’ve talked to breeders – some of them my clients – who invested two to three years ago in new high-performance…
A “new crops” workshop is to be held in Warwick later this month to help farming move away from being dependent on the success of only…
Although prices have continued to ease, further signs are emerging that we are fairly close to the bottom of the market as the gap between UK…
The “house full” sign has gone up over the first pig technical managers’ course launched by BPEX in Bury St Edmunds, giving a strong kick-start to…
A gallery of images from the inaugural National Pig Awards at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, on November 4, 2014. These, and many more images from…