Formaldehyde has been banned as a feed additive in the EU from today. The product was denied authorisation in the EU due to health and safety…
Year: 2018
Following the European launch a few weeks ago, Zoetis UK has launched its new PRRS vaccine in the UK. Suvaxyn PRRS MLV, which contains an attenuated…
Michael Gove has set out plans to redirect money from the current direct payment support system to a new system of paying farmers ‘public money for…
New NFU president Minette Batters has called on the Government to put farming at the heart of its Brexit negotiations in her first major speech in…
BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme is being broadcast from a pig farm in East Yorkshire all week. The BBC team is spending the week at…
As the song title suggests, prices are starting to show slightly firmer price trends with the SPP actually going up for once by a modest 0.15p…
The latest statistics from Eurostat indicate that EU fresh/frozen pork exports returned to growth in December, gaining 9% on year earlier levels to reach 181,900 tonnes.…
UK clean pig slaughterings totalled 928,900 head in January, 8% higher than year earlier levels according to latest data from Defra. While the year-on-year increase may…
The share of the final pork retail price received by the producer recorded a drop of almost one percentage point in January, to under 40%. This…
The polls to vote in the NPA elections close at midday today. The NPA is urging is any members who haven’t vote yet to do so…