EU pig prices increased in the last week of January for the first time since the start of August 2014, prompting BPEX to ask if the…
Year: 2015
A Food Standards Agency (FSA) survey of undeclared meat in lamb dishes from takeaway outlets found that 21% of samples showed “the presence of non-declared meat”,…
BPEX have alerted livestock producers to a “once-in-a-lifetime chance” to get a share of the Agritech Centres for Agricultural Innovation funding totalling £90m, but with the…
A new analysis of the January pigmeat market by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has confirmed that producers throughout the UK are set for a “challenging” period.…
TRACES, the European Commission (EC) online traceability system, kept track of 44,000 consignments of imported animals and 400,000 consignments of imported produce of animal origin in…
Returning a viable margin to farmers must be given top priority attention according to a new “Agri-Strategy 2025” submission from the Irish Farmers Association (IFA). Despite…
It’s Friday 13th in a week’s time, but hopefully matters will be no worse than they have been today.It was another very difficult day for sellers…
A new analysis of the 2014 festive market has identified fresh pork as the only meat category to show a fall in volume purchases, according to…
Livestock-associated MRSA has been identified in two piglets in eastern England by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), according to the National Pig Association (NPA).…
Tesco is to be investigated by the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) concerning its relations with suppliers, focusing on possible payment delays and the role of payments…