The 2016 National Pig Awards are open for entries, but not for much longer – the closing date is July 1. Now in their third year,…
Month: June 2016
Confidence among farmers in the EU is at all-time low, according to the latest Copa & Cogeca survey of 8000 producers across 11 member states. “Our…
Specially Selected Pork will be one of the featured items during a “speaking to consumers” event in Aberdeen on Saturday which is being run by NFU…
There have been lots of developments at ForFarmers, the principal sponsor of the National Pig Awards, since its rebrand in 2014, especially the launch of its…
Irish pig farm leaders say that all current indications point towards a positive second half of the year for producers, a prospect which they describe as…
Feed sector businesses have huge innovation potential to improve the feed efficiency of the EU livestock sector but desperately need a “speeding up” of Europe’s regulatory…
EU production levels are starting to stabilise, based on provisional figures from the European Commission (EC) which show EU pigmeat production down 1% year-on-year in March…
A specially created pork burger, developed by Isle of Lewis school pupil, Callum MacRichie, is set to line up in competition with beef and lamb alternatives…
Antibiotic data for over 1.2m pigs has already been contributed by pig producers to the British pig industry’s new on-line medicine book which was launched just…
Many producers are currently failing to take advantage of freely available stock health data and, as a result, might be inadvertently wasting valuable time and money…