Europe’s farming unions, Copa-Cogeca, have welcomed the “strong support” given by EU farm ministers not to cut EU agriculture expenditure next year.Meeting in Brussels on Monday,…
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Increased demand from Asian markets helped UK pigmeat exports to grow by 3% on the year in September, countering a reduction in exports to other EU…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…