Experienced vet, Graeme Cooke, has been named as the UK’s new Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, a role he will take up in January 2017. Coming from…
Month: November 2016
Food and farming will be at the centre of negotiations as the UK carves out a new future outside the EU, Defra Secretary Andrea Leadsom has…
The pig industry, ‘unnoticed by consumers’, is manipulating and re-manufacturing the meat we eat to maximise profit – ‘leaving a legacy of problems that we are…
One in five pig sector farms and businesses would struggle to survive without migrant labour warns the NPA, based on the results of an online survey…
The Red Tractor organisation has launched a two-month consultation process as part of its programme to agree new farm standards running through to the end of…
The EU Reference pig prices, published by AHDB Pork on a weekly basis, overstate the UK price by 5-6/kg, relative to the industry’s EU competitors, analysis…
Average Farm Business Income (FBI) for specialist pig farms in England fell by 56% in 2015/16, registering the sector’s largest year-on-year decrease on record, according to…
The return to colder weather could be a blessing for pig farmers says environmental specialist, Tim Miller. Having been called out on “numerous occasions” to give…