I hear it all over the world: “We pig producers have been stuck at 12% mortality for years – and it’s getting worse, not better!”, writes…
Year: 2014
EU farming unions group Copa-Cogeca has released new EU-28 oilseeds and protein crop estimates for the 2014/15 marketing year that show a positive market outlook and…
Prices are continuing to move ahead, and although the DAPP only put on 0.3p this week to stand at 162.86p, spot prices were within the 167-169p/kg…
BPEX is to expand its range of historical pig price reports to include an all new GB Standard Pig Price (SPP).The data making up the new…
The Pig World New Product Award, which will be judged at the 2014 British Pig & Poultry Fair, is now open for entries.The event, which is…
A drop in the sales of frozen pork meant that overall amount of the meat sold in the three months to the end of February was…
Exports of pork from the UK amounted to 15,700t in January 2014, which was 15% more than the same month in 2013.Reporting the figures in Pig…
The Food Standards Agency has started a six-week consultation on new rules for pig meat inspections that will come into force in June 2014. The new…
Work is now underway on a two-year project that will re-examine the nutritional value of oilseed rape meal fed to pigs and poultry.Funded by the HGCA,…
A supercreep is one designed and usually made by a specialist company with a carefully chosen and restricted choice of raw materials, writes John Gadd. Research…