Europe’s compound feed manufacturers have called on the European Council to set up a working group to analyse the key market and regulatory pressures that they…
Month: September 2015
ForFarmers has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility on its Exeter site to replace the current mill. The project will create one of the…
The further growth of China’s demand for pigmeat imports “must now be in some doubt” according to AHBP Pork, based on a new analysis which takes…
All landowners should take drainage seriously and invest in their land, despite the lack of available grant aid, says the co-author of a new “field drainage…
Dutch agricultural software specialist AgroVision has acquired its Danish counterpart AgroSoft. The acquisition makes the Deventer-based company, which is part of the CoMore-group, the clear European…
GB pig producers continued to make a loss in the second quarter of this year, despite production costs for the three months being at their lowest…
Copa Cogeca’s pigmeat group is meeting in Brussels today to debate the “bad situation” affecting the European industry, ahead of next Monday’s mass agriculture protest in…
NFU Scotland has drawn up a list of urgent demands on behalf of its hard-pressed producers, with the promise that “high level delegations” from the union…
Grenville Welsh MBE, who was chief executive of the British Pig Association for over 30 years, has died after a prolonged period of illness. His work…
Concluding our three-part biosecurity series, we explore the practical steps one producer has taken to prevent disease from entering and spreading through his unit, or to…