The NPA has welcomed the appointment of a UK Trade Commissioner for China. Trade Secretary Liam Fox announced that Richard Burn, currently the Department for International Trade’s director general…
Year: 2018
The news that the influential German pig producer price had risen by 3 cents helped to put a spring into the step of UK pig producers.…
Mike Shattock joined AHDB in mid-November as knowledge exchange manager for the south, having handed the reins of his family’s 250-sow pig unit in South Africa…
At the end of November each year, I make the effort to go to the Nuffield Conference and the presentations are always excellent. There is nearly…
AHDB Pork has announced it will continue to sponsor Ladies in Pigs (LIPs) throughout 2018. The sponsorship will be worth £100,000 for LIPs and will see…
Pig producers have been told retaining more young sows is vital to their overall herd performance and to improve financial gains. More than 30 independent producers…
The latest Pig World Veterinary View comment on a very topical subject comes from Christina Huelsmann-Diamond, who joined Garth Pig Practice Ltd in 2017. She is…
A new campaign is highlighting how the ‘liquid gold’ properties of colostrum can play a key role in reducing the need for antibiotics in farm animals…
The NPA Producer Group has set out its Brexit priorities to Defra officials. The group had some clear message for the Government when two Defra officials spent a…
The new year has been interesting in policy terms – starting with Michael Gove’s speech at the Oxford Farming Conference. In it, he affirmed the Government’s…