Britain’s supermarkets are battling for market share in the most “tightly fought” sales race for 20 years according to Kantar Worldpanel, the consumer research organisation. Reporting…
Year: 2015
Tulip has announced that 78 jobs at the company’s Tipton site in the West Midlands are “at risk of redundancy”, due to the loss of significant…
The discovery of a new form of antibiotic with the potential to be “unlikely” to become subject to the development of future resistance has been claimed…
Levels of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) in US herds is “minimal” so far this winter according to comments made by the president of the National…
Imports of pigmeat into the UK were lower than a year earlier in November 2014, despite EU prices staying well below those in the UK, according…
Russia’s state veterinary service, Rosselkhoznadzor, has objected to the way Belarus has handled African Swine Fever (ASF) and how both the EU and Ukraine are dealing…
A four-year research project at the University of Nottingham, designed to deliver improved pig farm feed efficiency, has secured funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences…
The next 12 months could easily become another year that pig producers will want to forget, following on from 2014’s steady decline in pigmeat prices, according…
The annual confidence survey commissioned by BPEX should reach producers, and members of the allied industry, this week. “I would urge anybody who receives a questionnaire…
It’s been a disappointing start to the year, with retail demand reported to be “very quiet”, not to mention the ongoing slump in cull sow prices.Contract…