The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has lifted furazolidone restrictions from 97 pig farms. The farms, which were previously placed under restriction during…
Year: 2014
Agriculture ministers from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have agreed to combine their efforts to tackle African swine fever (ASF).At a meeting in the Lituanian capital,…
Grants totalling £1.87 million have been awarded under the Global Food Security programme to address the challenges surrounding the UK agri-food system, food safety, food fraud/crime…
The EU pork market will improve seasonally during the rest of 2014 but will not reach the highs experienced in most other countries according to the…
The 2014 British Pig & Poultry Fair scored a 93% hit with visitors concerning the value of the event to their business. According to a post-event…
A proposed relaxation of the classical swine fever (CSF) rules governing the importing of fresh pork and pork products into the USA from Mexico has opened…
A new Advisory Board to help cut red tape for farmers is to be set by the Scottish Government. The move follows the publication of ‘Doing…
Assessing the climate change impact of pig farming is a much more complex question than merely taking feed conversion ratio (FCR) as the only indicator of…
The Wellcome Trust has acquired the Co-operative Group’s farms business for £249 million, a deal which includes 15,997 hectares, 100 residential properties, three pack houses and…
Now that August has arrived, demand was very much in holiday mode with no real bite to the trade – not helped by the DAPP continuing…