Global pork export prices have remained under continued pressure throughout 2015, reaching a low point in April, and struggling to do much better during the third…
Year: 2015
The potential for a return to feeding swill to pigs within the EU is argued for strongly in a new report produced by scientists from the…
The successful installation of a complex French ventilation system into a new Aberdeenshire grower unit has cleared the way for the system’s purpose-built UK control process…
Europe’s meat trade organisation, UECBV, has written to EU farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, urging him to pursue a “dynamic trade policy” on behalf of the livestock…
The need for a “renewed focus” on physical performance is one of the key conclusions of AHDB Pork’s latest analysis of GB pig production, covering the…
Vet groups using the so-called “last-line antibiotic” colistin in pigs, poultry and cattle have agreed to restrict their use of the item while the “risks” which…
Feed sector leaders have joined forces with meat and livestock industry bodies to reaffirm their “whole chain” commitment to tackling climate change, highlighting the fact that…
Straw-based pig housing systems are claimed to be gaining increasing favour among producers, in response to rising “demand from supermarkets” for pigs reared under such systems.…
The introduction of a global target to reduce antibiotic use in food production to an agreed level per kilogram of livestock and fish, along with restrictions…
Seeking to apply the “antibiotics in farming standards” which are being achieved in Denmark to other parts of the EU and the world, may not be…