NFU Scotland has urged the Scottish Government to “pick up the pace” in its efforts to strip bureaucracy and red tape out of farming. The union’s…
Month: December 2014
American pig technicians, representing businesses with a combined herd of 100,000 sows, recently spent a week in the UK looking at British-led hardware and software systems.…
A bleak picture of falling farm incomes across Europe in 2014 is revealed by the release of the year’s first estimates by Eurostat, the statistical office…
Copa-Cogeca has welcomed a new commitment made by EU farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, to look at opening private storage for pigmeat in January for producers hit…
Demand for high standards of animal welfare to be linked with the granting of international finance for developing countries has been backed by farm ministers from…
Continued improvements in both sow productivity and feed efficiency levels “paint a mostly positive” for the physical performance of the GB pig herd, according to BPEX.Based…
BPEX has drawn attention to the sharply contrasting trends in UK pork exports and imports revealed in the latest figures published by HMRC, covering trade movements…
The opportunity to look at the delivery of EU support measures for the pigmeat market is included as one of the agenda items for the final…
Although the cull sow market continues in freefall, signs are starting to emerge that UK finished pig prices may be at or near the bottom in…
Simon Watchorn, who runs a 600-sow outdoor breed-to-finish unit in Suffolk, has been appointed to the BPEX board.Involved in the industry for the last 20 years,…