Although the SPP has continued to slide, and now stands at its lowest point since its conception, standing at 131.11p/kg, there was a slightly firmer feeling…
Month: May 2015
Construction work has begun on the £25m innovation centre and campus hub being built at the University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush site, a development which will…
Continued deflation in food products poses a “very real threat” to the farming industry says the NFU’s head of food and farming, Phil Bicknell. Noting that…
Demand for pigs on the domestic market in Ireland is “picking up” according the Irish Farmers Association (IFA). “Reports from farmers suggest that factories are now…
Pig farmers in China’s Guangdong Province were “gobsmacked” when confronted with the growth rates being achieved by producers in the UK and USA by Farmex boss,…
Of late, the veterinary team has been busy with several large projects that require development and resource to get them up and running. While the team…
Last month I was talking about the combination of additives currently used in piglet starter feeds as ways to improve growth. This was on the back…
“Stand still and you’ll go backwards,” one of my former bosses, who was a most entrepreneurial gentleman, used to say. No one can accuse the British…
It’s been another busy month for the NPA as we rocket towards the summer – where on earth has the first half of 2015 gone? At…
Denmark’s International Pig Welfare Conference certainly looked interesting on paper and more than lived up to that promise. It was a smart move by Denmark’s agriculture…