Pig World founding editor Sam Walton was a popular winner of the Chris Brant Award at the National Pig Awards on Monday night. Sam, who started…
Month: November 2017
The British Pig Health Scheme (BPHS) has been suspended after AHDB has found that data currently collected from it is not consistent with historical data. AHDB…
The best of the British pig industry will be celebrated tonight, as the fourth National Pig Awards takes place at London’s Lancaster Hotel. A total of…
The animal welfare gulf between the UK and two of our likely post-Brexit trading partners has been highlighted by reports of slow progress in removing sow…
In September total GB compound pig feed production was 4% (5,900 tonnes) higher year on year at 163,500 tonnes, according to latest Defra data. The majority…
With use of AHDB’s eMB-Pigs compulsory for all Red Tractor assured pig producers from November 2017, ABN are working with customers to simplify recording and uploading…
Although all our troubles used to be so far away, but currently there are several challenges facing pig producers especially over the Christmas period. The SPP…
As the threat to pig businesses from vegan and animal welfare activists grows, producers are being urged to sign up to the ‘Safecall’ service, which was…
While still well above 2015 levels, the Chinese pork import market has fallen behind the exceptional performance of 2016 in recent months. According to AHDB analysis,…
Each quarter the AHDB publishes the estimated cost of pig production in GB.The latest data shows that in Q2 this year the estimated cost of GB…