A new online tool has been developed to help pig farmers address the problem of tail-biting. Research funded jointly by AHDB Pork and the RSPCA, and carried…
Month: March 2017
With pig supplies still on the tight side and, despite the SPP easing marginally in value by 0.22p to 149.59p, demand remains firm across the board.…
The use of prescribed antibiotics administered in feed for young pigs has halved over the past three years, figures released by RUMA suggest. Data collected from…
Pig farmers could soon find themselves facing up to a future without access to zinc oxide for medicinal use in piglet diets. The implications of a…
Antibiotic data representing more than half the 2015 UK pig herd has been loaded onto the eMB-Pigs database, with efforts now being stepped up to secure…
Danish Crown has increased its presence in the UK foodservice sector. Foodservice has been part of the company’s business in the UK since 2014. It has…
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has commissioned an audit to gauge levels of compliance with its pork scheme’s lorry washing rules. Lorry washing is a mandatory…
AHDB has issued its March update on the UK pig meat market. GB pig prices fell for the first time since February 2016 during January. The…
AHBB Pork has published a ground-breaking new report outlining the findings of objective animal welfare assessments covering nearly 5.5 million pigs over three years. AHDB’s Real Welfare…
I wrote this month’s column sitting in Defra’s Noble House cafe, after meeting Graeme Cooke, the new Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer. He’d only been in the…