NPA Allied Industry Group chairman Hugh Crabtree discusses the ‘unstoppable trains’ coming at the pig sector in 2020. t’s inevitable that advancing years means the accelerating…
Month: December 2019
The NPA’s Lizzie Wilson sets out some of the environmental issues pig producers need to look out for in 2020. Permitting The permitting review had stalled for…
This week’s Slaughter Pig Marketing Summary, from Thames Valley Cambac, reported that trading for the second short week of the festive period was again mostly pre…
The NPA’s Ed Barker summarises a turbulent year in politics and highlights the big issues to look out for in 2020. For us at the NPA…
A relatively quiet end to a fairly turbulent year with most index prices showing little variation with their pre-Christmas values. Although the SPP put on a…
African swine fever (ASF) is endemic in China. Nonetheless, many forecasts expect Chinese pork production to be on the way to recovery by the middle of…
This week’s Pig Marketing Summary, from Thames Valley Cambac, reported that trading for the short week of Christmas was pre-planned for the most part with the…
Red meat sales continued to perform badly, according to the latest update from Kantar, which covers the 12 weeks ending December 1. Processed meats, in particular,…
With many of the larger abattoirs in the UK and beyond “done and dusted” as far as Christmas and New Year stocks are concerned, a quiet…
Zac Goldsmith will continue as a Defra Minister after Boris Johnson gave him a seat in the House of Lords, as had been widely expected. Mr…