A major pig equipment dispersal sale on behalf of Eastern Pig Contractors is to be held at Martlesham, near Ipswich, on May 16. “The existing pig…
Year: 2015
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) says there is a “desperate need for improved farmgate returns” given low farm incomes and the uncertainty facing the industry…
A call for European legislation to be adapted to allow insect products to fulfil their potential as a “sustainable and innovative source of animal proteins” for…
Getting a robust animal disease strategy in place across the EU before the next big disease challenge occurs could be vital to the UK agricultural industry…
The need to maintain “high food production and animal welfare standards” was highlighted during a key voting session in the European Commission (EC) agriculture committee on…
The highly virulent strain of PEDv that decimated piglet numbers in the US, and is rife in Asia, will almost certainly appear in Europe, and even…
The UK imported 7% more pork in February than in the same month last year but also saw year-on-year exports rise by 10%, according to BPEX.…
Irish pig farm leaders are forecasting an “inevitable” rise in prices over the next few weeks, despite reporting that values remain “disappointingly” static in Ireland at…
China is now the UK’s largest single export market for pork and pork products, generating sales worth just under £60 million in 2014. “China is increasingly…
Restaurants, fast-food outlets and other foodservice companies have been urged by the National Pig Association (NPA) to follow the lead of the country’s supermarkets by sourcing…