Butchery firm Turnbull’s has announced the completion of a new 1,000 sq ft unit on Alnwick’s Lionheart Industrial Estate, which it says will meet its business expansion requirements.…
Month: March 2017
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) is inviting pig industry businesses that supply retailers direct to two roundtable meetings during the spring. The GCA supplier workshops will take…
The SPP has put on 0.35p to stand at 149.94p, German producer prices have risen 3 Euro Cents, the Euro is up by 1.7% to trade…
The Red Tractor pigs board has accepted a request by the NPA producer group to allow more time for scheme members to submit data onto the…
On-farm best practice from across the major pig producing countries in Europe will be captured and disseminated via a new knowledge-sharing project. The EU PiG Innovation…
Rising sales of prime cuts to China are just one reason to be optimistic about the current pork marketplace,  AHDB Pork strategy director Mick Sloyan told Tuesday’s…
Use of antibiotics is falling more quickly in agriculture than in human medicine, according to Junior Health Minister Nicola Blackwood. MPs debated progress on the wide-ranging…
A Scottish pork processing plant has been hit by what fire and rescue services described as a ‘significant blaze’. The McKechnie Jess abattoir in Greenock, which…
Higher National Insurance contributions announced in today’s Budget will hit farmers, self-employed farm workers and contractors, leading rural insurer NFU Mutual has warned. In his Budget…
The Soil Association (SA) has denied its campaigning on antibiotics usage in farming is ‘divisive and obstructive’. The Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA alliance)…