The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is to restructure its exports, trade and consumer marketing teams to ensure it is ‘fit for the future’. The…
Month: January 2018
The New Year often sees people making resolutions – either to start something new (going to the gym, eating better, taking up a hobby) or to…
The fourth open meeting with AHDB Pork Strategic Farmer, David Goodier takes place this evening in Wetherby. Producers and the allied industry are invited to hear details…
Good progress has been made in reducing antibiotic use in the pig industry over the past two years. Figures collected via the eMB-Pigs database show a…
The end of 2017 finally saw some progress in Brexit talks. The December ‘divorce deal’, which covered the big issues of the UK divorce bill, the…
Another difficult day for sellers with very little to smile about, including the miserable January weather. Although the SPP only slipped by 0.13 this week to…
Today is the last chance to get your suggestions in for the NPA’s banner competition – and give yourself a chance of winning a hamper from…
Pig producer net margins reached 27p/kg in Q3 2017, the highest since records began in 2009, according to new figures from AHDB Pork, who say the…
Farming is in a unique position to deliver for the environment so long as there are productive and viable businesses available, with food at their heart,…
Pig producers will receive £250 for sows or gilts slaughtered as TB reactors, after the NPA insisted the meagre payments initially proposed were too low. Defra introduced…