Although the influential German producer price has remained at 1.45 EUR for the 6th week running, unfortunately UK producer prices continue to head south with the…
Month: December 2017
McDonald’s was forced to apologise to consumers today, after running out of bacon. The problem occurred at store across the country, prompting an outburst on social,…
Farming organisations have joined forces to urge the Environment Agency (EA) to rethink proposed new environmental permit charge increases for the intensive pig and poultry sector.…
I joined a small group of Young NPA members on a day trip to the Netherlands recently to visit the MS Schippers Hy-Care concept barn, writes…
I was elected to Producer Group nine years ago and have been chairman for the last three years. I am also ‘a simple pig farmer’ –…
Well, the antibiotics genie is now well and truly out of the bottle and, surprisingly for many people in the industry, the response from many outside…
What a challenging two months it has been! Moving from a knowledge exchange role, working with beef and lamb farmers, to pick up the pork reins…
When our lactating sows are milking well, we set the benchmark for our growing herd performance and subsequent re-breeding performance, writes Mark Williams. This short-but-sweet period…
The drive to reduce antibiotic use must be driven by outcomes, rather than production systems, leading industry figures told a conference on antibiotics in livestock. The…
The introduction of tough regulations governing all prescribed medications used on farm in 2011 has undoubtedly increased Dutch pig production costs. This has forced some businesses…