The share of retail prices received by pig producers in May remained stable in comparison with April at just below 35%, according to AHBD Pork. While…
Month: June 2015
Pig sector output in Scotland increased by 19% in 2014, reaching a total country value of £94.6m, according to the latest Scottish Red Meat Industry profile,…
The Yorkshire-based veterinary medicines supplier, Vetsonic, has appointed Mark Houlton to look after the pig side of its business. From a Yorkshire farming background, Mr Houlton…
Britain’s restaurants and fast-food chains have been challenged by the National Pig Association (NPA) to copy the country’s supermarkets by sourcing more British meat and promoting…
More than 1,000 awards, claimed to be worth a total of £1.2m, have been given to people working in agriculture and the food supply chain as…
Almost 3 million more pigs were slaughtered across the EU in the first quarter of this year than in the corresponding period in 2104, according to…
More than a dozen people from pig businesses across the country have already made use of AHDB Pork’s Technical Managers Scheme (TMS) with positive feedback being…
More British pig producers are now using specialist pig vets rather than “GP” practitioners. I’ve got nothing against the latter group at all – indeed in…
The onset of warmer weather seems to have heated up the pig trade to some extent, with the SPP nudging ahead to 131.59p, and this was…
The pigmeat sector can “bring a lot to the table” in its relationship with the newly re-branded Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), according to the…