The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) comes into effect today. Pork has been designated as a sensitive product which means Canada has been granted…
Month: September 2017
The National Pig Association’s autumn regional meetings start next month, with a strong focus on farm safety. There will be four evening meetings, starting with Exeter on…
Supermarket sales have increased by 3.6% compared with the same period last year, according to the latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, published today…
A former agriculture director with a wealth of experience in the food and farming sectors has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Centre…
In the 12 months ending June 2017, the productivity of the GB sow herd continued to increase, according to latest data from Agrosoft. Although there was…
Chester Local Policing Unit officers are appealing for information from the public after nearly 200 pigs were stolen from a farm near Frodsham in Cheshire. Shortly…
The NPA has joined forces with NFU and stakeholders across the industry to urge the European Commission to extend two derogations for organic pig and poultry, which are due to end on December 31,…
Defra figures from the 1 June Agricultural survey indicate that England’s pig herd increased modestly compared to the previous year, reaching almost 4.0 million head. This…
The Co-op has beefed up its British farming investment programme with a blue-print to give young farmers the business skills they need to accelerate their agricultural…
All the signs were there earlier in the week that prices would be facing something of a correction today, and they did. The SPP has dropped…