“Stand still and you’ll go backwards,” one of my former bosses, who was a most entrepreneurial gentleman, used to say. No one can accuse the British…
Year: 2015
It’s been another busy month for the NPA as we rocket towards the summer – where on earth has the first half of 2015 gone? At…
Denmark’s International Pig Welfare Conference certainly looked interesting on paper and more than lived up to that promise. It was a smart move by Denmark’s agriculture…
BPEX knowledge transfer manager Angela Cliff discusses the worrying trend of increased sow retention that’s emerged during the past 12 months Producers should avoid the temptation…
After the severe shocks of the last year, pork production in the countries of Eastern Europe is showing signs of stabilisation, and returning to a position…
Pig production costs moved above incomes for the first quarter of 2015, creating average losses of up to £8 a pig towards the end of the…
The first of a series of specialised guides to help the industry cope with an outbreak of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) is now available on the…
A live oral vaccine used by pig producers in Canada for more than seven years to help prevent post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD), has now been licensed for…
North Lincolnshire producer, John Godfrey CBE, has been awarded the National Pig Association’s first lifetime fellowship in recognition of his “exceptional service to the British pig…
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is considering commissioning new research on consumers’ views on transparency in relation to animal welfare, while also strengthening its monitoring and…