Farm debt in Scotland has increased by 4% over the past year, taking total debt levels to their highest since the late 1980s. According to the…
Year: 2015
Nearly 5 million more pigs were slaughtered in the EU in the first half of this year than in the same period in 2014, according to…
Europe’s farming leaders have warned the European Commission (EC) that the €500 million aid package agreed by EU Farm Ministers yesterday is “far from sufficient” in…
The prospect of a new private storage (PSA) scheme for pigmeat and a commitment to increase next year’s promotional budget beyond the €81 million (£59m) already…
Signs of progress towards settling the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over Russia’s ban on imports of EU pigmeat have started to emerge, following the latest…
RSPCA Assured is recruiting two Freedom Food assessors, predominantly to undertake pig and poultry assessments in East Anglia. Key tasks will include arranging and carrying out…
An advert to promote RSPCA Assured, that features the voice of actor John Hurt, will be shown appear on TV screens from this week. It wil…
EU farm ministers will need to produce a different form of private storage aid (PSA) to the one used earlier this year, if that proves to…
The Netherlands-based animal nutrition business, Nutreco, is to double its investment in R&D and innovation over the next few years while also changing the name of…
The UK’s farming ministers have been challenged by their Scottish equivalent to secure a “fairer framework for farming” during today’s emergency summit in Brussels. “We have…