After six months isolation focusing purely on inputs and outputs, and being at the beck and call of my newborn little boy, it’s lovely to be…
Year: 2014
EU pig prices continued to strengthen in May and the provisional figure for the EU as a whole averaged 133.7p/kg deadweight (at the exchange rate of…
The annual search for a hero of the pig industry to receive the David Black Award is now under way.The annual award, sponsored by BPEX, started…
John Carr of Carrs Consulting and Mark Howells of Howells Veterinary Services consider the economics of inseminationThe majority of pig producers now purchase or collect their…
Maybe it’s a bit of an emotive headline, but there’s been some fuss about this recently, writes John Gadd. I see farmers still keeping a tab…
The Pig Hub, a one-stop-shop for pig producers to access all their contact details and online services, such as eAML2, is being launched on June 18.…
The NFU has said the industry must do all it can to teach youngsters about where their food comes from after 84% of five to eight-year-olds…
With the DAPP only up a fraction, rising by 0.06p to 164.29p, contract prices are likely to remain at very similar levels, as most of these…
I never know what to expect at the Pig Fair, but I thought two years ago that it would be a bit dismal and so it…
New figures published by Defra show a 1% decline in UK clean pig slaughterings in April 2014. About 937,200 head were processed, with fewer working days,…