Fire crews were called out last week to rescue Penelope, a 20 stone pig from a drainage ditch following an amorous encounter. Malcolm Bennett, the owner…
Year: 2018
Any post-Brexit scheme to ensure a future supply of migrant labour in agriculture must encourage full-time workers to come and live in the UK, the NPA…
Strengthened statutory guidance will be available for pig  keepers on how to meet the needs of their animals and enhance their welfare. Welfare codes  are being…
The CLA has responded to the news that delivery of superfast broadband is reaching 95% of UK premises. The £1.7 billion Government rollout of superfast broadband to areas…
Improved pork sales contributed to shoppers spending £1bn more this Christmas than last year. Volume and value both grew ahead of the market, although the category…
Two new series of AHDB stockman training courses are starting over the next fortnight. Stockman Development Scheme course starts on Wednesday, January 31. This series of workshops,…
Very little variation in pig prices with hopes that we may be ‘bumping along the bottom’Â with the German producer price holding firm and the SPP also…
A man walking his dog in the Forest of Dean has had his finger bitten off by a wild boar prompting more concerns about the spread…
Humanists UK is calling on the Government to go further with its legal definition of the ‘welfare needs of animals’. The current draft Bill makes no…
Lancashire farmer David Goodier, has seen an increase of more than two pigs weaned per sow per year, from 24.57 to 26.79, since he became an…