Pig World has announced the members of the judging panel for the National Pig Awards. Comprising some of the best-known industry figures, the panel includes respected…
Year: 2014
I recently attended an agricultural engineers’ conference at Cranfield University and it set me thinking. Nature is random, but as humans we try and standardise things.…
There’s a degree of publicity surrounding the easing of raw material commodity prices in the light of an expected production supply over demand in cereals and…
I guess by the time this issue of Pig World drops onto door mats, the first of the barleys will have been harvested, particularly in the…
With summer here and people starting to prepare for what I hope will be a bumper harvest, you’d think things would get quieter; but you’d be…
Premier Nutrition, which is part of AB Agri, has announced the acquisition of Roses Nutrition Limited. The deal, which took effect from July 7, expands Premier…
One of my neighbours started on his winter barley on July 10, which is about a week earlier than normal. That’s a week before Driffield Show,…
There’s still time to nominate somebody to receive the pig industry’s highest honour, the David Black Award.It has been presented annually since 1960 to somebody who’s…
Pig meat production in the EU is expected to start picking up slowly after two years of tight supplies according to the directorate general for Agriculture…
Prices held at generally similar levels with the DAPP a shade firmer at 163.87p and contract prices followed this trend.Spot bacon buyers absorbed any spare pigs…