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…
Year: 2015
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…
Severe drought, the Russian embargo and the spread of African swine fever (ASF) are the factors that have been mostly determining developments in the pig industries…
Financial returns for pig producers are low across Europe and are forcing many businesses to consider their future. The situation is particularly bad in The Netherlands,…
I’ve been considering how the UK pig industry would react to unprecedented export demand. It’s commonly predicted that it won’t be too long before the growing…
The AHDB board has issued a statement to clarify its position following “levy payer and industry concerns” over the organisation’s promotional work. The statement includes an…
It has been a testing couple of weeks, with regular debate about whether we join in with the clamouring from the lamb and dairy sectors on…