The challenge of farming in a volatile world is the theme that will dominate next month’s National Farmers Union (NFU) conference in Birmingham with key contributions…
Month: January 2015
The European Commission (EC) will reinstate the post of chief scientific adviser according to information from the Brussels office of the National Farmers Union (NFU) and…
The EU has committed close to €180 million (£139m) for 2015, to support veterinary programmes that aim to eliminate animal diseases and zoonoses including, for the…
Britain’s supermarkets are battling for market share in the most “tightly fought” sales race for 20 years according to Kantar Worldpanel, the consumer research organisation. Reporting…
Despite a fall in average retail prices by over 6%, the amount of pork bought in the latest 12-week period, ending December 7, 2014, fell by…
NPA chairman, Richard Longthorp, has commended the country’s retailers for sticking to their post-horsegate promise to source more British pork. Commenting on the second anniversary of…
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB) operating divisions will be rebranded later this year to create a “simplified family of levy-payer facing brands” under the…
The pigmeat market situation in Ireland has worsened again with the country now running just 1% above the average EU price, according the Irish Farmers Association…
Imports of pigmeat into the UK were lower than a year earlier in November 2014, despite EU prices staying well below those in the UK, according…
Levels of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) in US herds is “minimal” so far this winter according to comments made by the president of the National…