The head of Estonia’s Food and Veterinary Office (FVO), Ago Pärtels, has been dismissed for allegedly issuing “erroneous information” to the public over the disposal of…
Year: 2016
EU farm commissioner, Phil Hogan, has outlined the 2016 programme he is planning in an attempt to “open new markets” for EU producers. Describing his schedule…
It was a difficult start to the year as far as sellers are concerned, with the SPP still in retreat and dropping by 1.49p to 121.97p,…
The US and South Africa (SA) have reached a last-minute agreement on meat exports from the US into SA which includes a concession on pork and…
I last touched on this in my second Blog for Pig World in December 2013. That was when litters of 16 were appearing regularly and beginning…
M&S has reported its “best ever Christmas” for food with total sales increasing by 3.7% and like-for-like sales rising by 0.4%. Ironically, poor performance across the…
German pig numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 2011, hinting at a future tightening in supplies, according to AHDB Pork. Provisional figures from the…
The welfare-focused 360 Sow Farrowing Pen, invented by Midlands pig producer, Martin Barker, has won the Oxford Farming Conference/RASE Practice with Science award. Invented to address…
Danish Crown has announced that its subsidiary, Tulip Ltd., is to “make some changes to its operational footprint in the UK”. “The company proposes to expand…
Environment Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, has committed the government to improving the country’s “resilience to animal disease” by investing around £65 million in new centres for livestock,…