Pig producers are going to have to wait a while for prices to firm says Quality Meat Scotland’s head of economics services, Stuart Ashworth. Basing his…
Year: 2015
Thanks to a marginal improvement in the value of the euro, demand for finished pigs and culls sows was “no worse than last week” which is…
The UK farming unions have secured an important concession concerning new rules on the purchase and use of professional rodenticide bait which are due to come…
Danish Crown has told Pig World that the company is looking forward to having a “constructive dialogue” with the Danish competition authorities over its planned merger…
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and the Scottish SPCA, Scotland’s leading animal welfare charity, have established a formal partnership to “promote and encourage” a high level of…
French livestock farmers have been awarded a €600 million (£420m) government-backed relief package in which some taxes will be waived and others will be “set-aside” for…
Subdued retail sales of pigmeat across Europe, despite rising overall levels of consumption, is one of the main reasons why pig prices have remained “stubbornly low”…
A 46,000-sow expansion project, worth the equivalent of £215m, has begun in Russia with the backing of the country’s Sberbank CIB bank. The project, which is…
A new website, devoted exclusively to high quality pork produced in Wales, has been launched by Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC). Called Porc.Wales,…
Researchers at Bristol University have embarked on a project with the commercial company, AB Neo, to examine gut microbiota and performance in neonatal pigs. The work…