It was another red-ink day for sellers, with the SPP continuing to slide and losing another 0.88p to stand at 140.82p and other factory and index…
Month: January 2015
Food safety MEPs have voted 48-15 in favour of the introduction country of origin labelling for meat used as an ingredient in processed foods, as is…
Three research projects designed to look at controlling the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus (PEDv) have been announced by the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, backed by significant…
The National Pig Association (NPA) has reported that while an “agreement” has been reached concerning a selective lifting by Russia of its January 2014 African swine…
A new BPEX analysis, exploring the relationship between prices for weaners, finished pigs and feed, suggests that while weaner prices are normally set in a “rational…
Producers, selected on a random basis, are being asked this month to respond to a questionnaire about antibiotic use in pigs as part of a national…
Irish pig farming leaders have drawn some positives this week out of the “talk” of an early reopening of the Russian market to EU pigmeat, plus…
The European Commission (EC) has “back-tracked” on its reported agreement to reinstate the role of chief scientific adviser, according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU). “British…
Copa-Cogeca, the European farmers and farm cooperative body has issued a stinging tweet, voicing its disgust at the way supermarkets have behaved in the wake of…
The New Year has failed to trigger any upturn in fortunes for European pig producers, with prices averaging just over £100 per 100kg in the week…