Farmers are being urged to put in place effective safety procedures to reduce risk of accidents on farm, as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) continues…
Year: 2018
Farmers are facing the perfect storm this year when it comes to straw prices, writes John Swire. Following the wet harvest last year followed by an…
Organisers of the 2018 British Pig & Poultry Fair have said that feedback from a survey of visitors and exhibitors reveals that they considered it the…
AHDB has recently reviewed the UK pig meat supplies forecast, produced in April. Domestic production was higher than anticipated during Q2. This was partly due to…
In early July, the average price of pigs traded in the EU remained stable, following some modest volatility earlier in the year. The EU average pig…
The National Pig Association (NPA) has updated its widely-praised 2016 Antibiotic Stewardship Programme to showcase the tremendous progress made by the pig sector in reducing and…
In his latest Eastern European update, Russian journalist Vladislav Vorotnitkov analyses Russia’s gamble to invest in expanding pork production. The staging of the World Cup in…
There was plenty of encouragement for the pig sector in Theresa May’s Brexit White Paper. But the political chaos around it means we are now seriously…
We recently invited the British Poultry Council (BPC)’s public affairs and PR manager Shraddha Kaul to present to the Allied Industry Group about being more proactive with…
NFU policy experts and commodity board chairmen will sit down with representatives from other farming organisations, Defra, the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Rural Payments…