A virtual food authenticity network has been launched the Government to help raise awareness of the tools which are available to check for mislabelling and food…
Month: July 2015
A new AHDB Pork evaluation of cost variations between farms has shown that the impact on final returns continues to be significant for both breeders and…
Businesses wishing to gain first-time exhibitor access to next year’s British Pig & Poultry Fair will be able to apply for stand space from August 1,…
Former BPEX director, Mick Sloyan, has taken on the post of pork strategy director under the on-going reorganisation at the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB),…
Irish pig farming leaders say they are “extremely dissatisfied” that new retail figures show a reduction in shelf space for Bord Bia Quality Assurance (QA) pork…
Pork, lamb and beef interests in Wales have been challenged to collaborate to achieve a new set of “ambitious targets” compiled by Hybu Cig Cymru –…
Pork imports hit their lowest May figure for 13 years, settling 12% below last year’s May total at 27,300 tonnes, according AHDB Pork. “With consumer demand…
EU farm ministers have been urged to intensify negotiations with Russia to get the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) restrictions, imposed on EU pigmeat exports in early…
Pedigree British Saddlebacks are to be used as part of a woodland restoration project at Haigh Hall Country Park, Wigan, in a research-based development run by…
New guidelines on the control of the parasitic roundworm, trichinella, as it relates to pigmeat have been agreed by the international food standards body, CODEX Alimentarius. Adopting a…