An assessment of how the Chinese market and other key markets in Asia are changing and how this is affecting demand for UK dairy and meat…
Year: 2015
The rising value of the pound against the euro, coupled with a host of other eurozone issues, could have price pressure implications for pig markets, according…
Freedom Food has congratulated the fast food chain, McDonald’s, for using 100% Freedom Food labelled pork across its entire UK menu. “This means that all sausage…
Dutch co-product group Duynie BV has brought together three British-based companies in its portfolio to form Duynie UK, a new co-product supply specialist for the livestock…
With PED now confirmed in Ukraine, albeit not by the country’s own veterinary authorities, a discussion on both the lower and higher-pathogenic strains of this destructive…
In the final part of his three-part series on liquid feeding, Steve Stokes of Hampshire Feeding Systems (HFS) looks at strategies for feeding different classes of…
The latest Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) Pig Disease Surveillance Report includes notice of the agency’s first diagnosis of oedema disease in East Anglia for…
Both the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and Copa Cogeca have spoken out this week on the need for Europe’s supermarkets to be placed under tighter controls…
The UK’s average winter temperature is 3.7C, and this makes environmental control in pig buildings difficult and expensive.All animals function at their best under thermo-neutral conditions,…
It was an interesting period over Christmas and New Year with regard to weather and temperature, with many areas experiencing changes from -6C to +8C within…