The USDA has released its latest view on world markets and trade for livestock. 2020 forecast global pork production has been raised by 2% to 96 million…
Year: 2020
Although the EU average price of 133p/kg in Sterling terms has held at similar levels, the SPP took a significant downward turn shedding 5p and now…
Almost a third of staff working for Brady’s Ham plant in Timahoe, Co Kildare, after an outbreak of Covid-19 infected at least 80 employees, with tests being…
After initial declines at the start of lockdown the takeaway market has returned to, and in the first 2 weeks of July exceeded, its pre-COVID high,…
Japanese imports of fresh and frozen pork during the first six months of 2020 totalled 468,200 tonnes, being relatively steady (-0.6%) on the same period last…
Jack Bosworth, one two Young NPA vice chairs, works full-time on an Essex family farm, comprising pig and arable enterprises. In the latest issue of Pig…
Tulip has announced plans to reopen its Bromborough site from August and has launched a major recruitment drive, creating over 120 job roles in the local…
The National Pig Association (NPA) has called for pig production to have a more formal and recognised role in the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.…
EU pig prices have weakened since the last update, although more recently have begun to show some stability according to a report by AHDB analyst Duncan Wyatt.…
YNPA member Lee Thompson, a finishing fieldsman at Wayland Farms, explains why he is break the stigma held around mental health in farming Flat White Chats started…