EU farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, and US secretary for agriculture, Tom Vilsack, will headline next month’s EU Agricultural Outlook Conference in Brussels when they will lead…
Month: November 2015
Pig World editor Graeme Kirk spoke to the 2015 National Pig Award winners as they left the stage with their awards.
There have been no fireworks in the market, more of a damp squib as far as sellers were concerned. Despite the SPP moving up marginally to…
East Anglian pig producer Jimmy Butler, this year’s winner of the Chris Brant Award, is “exactly what the award is all about”, declared the chairman of…
A selection of images from the 2015 National Pig Awards that took place in London on November 4, 2015. Click on the image above to open…
A series of open meetings will be held over the next few weeks by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) to assess which levy-funded activities…
Compound pig feed production in the UK increased by 4% in the third quarter of 2015, compared to the same period last year, according to an…
Retiring Red Tractor chairman David Gregory is to join the farm assurance company, Acoura, whose audit activities include work with BRC, Red Tractor, RSPCA Assured and…
AHDB Pork’s former head of technical, Andrew Knowles, has been named the recipient of the 2015 David Black Award. He was presented with the accolade by…
Firm prices “from start to finish” was the order of the day during the dispersal auction of outdoor pig equipment, held at Firsfield Farm, Coney Weston,…