Firstly, let me wish all our members a very happy New Year! Of course, I’m writing this in the middle of December and the Environment Agency…
Month: January 2018
A total of 9% of Red Tractor Pork scheme members incurred non-conformances as a result of not uploading data from the second and third quarters of…
The new Agricultural Bill, due for publication in 2018, will shape the farming industry for generations to come, NFU president Meurig Raymond said in his New…
The NPA has launched a competition to find an imaginative slogan to encourage the Great British public to buy Great British pork. The winning slogan will be turned…
Rob Mercer is a pig farmer from Burton-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, working in a fourth-generation family business. He is also – as of the beginning of 2017…
Water and ventilation have been under scrutiny to help improve weaned pig performance at AHDB’s pilot Strategic Farm, host producer David Goodier’s 230-sow unit in Lancashire.…
David Clarke, a founding member of Red Tractor Assurance, has been honoured with a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours. Set up in 2000 after…
The new year brings many opportunities, chief among them being the challenge of negotiating a good Brexit deal for the pig industry, according to National Pig…