The EU Commission has recently published the summer edition of its short-term outlook for agricultural markets which forecasts strong pork export growth in 2020 for the EU-27, excluding the…
Year: 2020
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has written to International Trade Secretary Liz Truss to raise concerns over the balance of expertise on the new Trade and…
The continuing fall out from COVID-19 is putting EU pig prices under serious pressure again. The EU Reference price (excluding the UK) stood at 144p/kg last…
Richard Irvine has been named as the new Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer (DCVO) for the United Kingdom following an extensive international recruitment campaign. Irvine is an…
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has reiterated its warning to travellers about not bringing pork products back into the country as COVID-19 travel restrictions…
The cull sow market remains ‘extremely difficult’, with animals backing up on farms, as the closure of a major plant in Germany continues to have a…
During the first 12 weeks of lockdown, British shoppers spent an extra £45m at butchers’ shops than in the same period last year, according to the…
Although the SPP put on another 0.2p to stand at 165.5p, EU prices are continuing to head south with the influential German producer price slumping to…
Representatives from each of the four UK farming unions will sit on the Government’s new Trade and Agriculture Commission, which will also include people representing retail, consumer, hospitality…
Renewed outbreaks of the fatal African swine fever (ASF) are surging in some parts of southern China following heavy rains according to Reuters, with analysts and…