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…
Year: 2016
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…
A quicker, easier and possibly cheaper, method of diagnosing oedema disease in pigs may be possible in the future, IDT Biologika veterinarian, Dr Verena Gotter, recently…
A new app to help producers with their mycotoxin management has been launched by the feed additives company, Nutriad. Called MYCOMAN, the app is claimed to…
UK exports of fresh/frozen pork grew by 18%, year-on-year, in April, according to AHDB Pork. China was the main growth driver, once again, with shipment levels…
Increased support, worth £50,000, for organic production has been announced by the Scottish Government, coinciding with the release of new figures which show that organic pig…
US pork exports are gaining strength this year but will still face challenges with increased global competition and a stronger US dollar, according to the industry’s…