In one of the most bizarre pig-related stories of the year so far, the North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service intervened after a pedometer excreted by…
Year: 2020
English pig numbers at 1 December totalled 3.78 million head, which is around 3% higher compared with December 2018, and is the largest December pig herd…
Coronavirus continues to ‘severely hamper export markets at a time also of ‘poor’ domestic demand, according to Thames Valley Cambac. Overall, the supply chain was ‘relatively…
This year’s site move has, for us, broken all records, not in a particularly good way. Starting in the first week of September and with the…
African swine fever (ASF) may be causing fewer problems than it was this time two years ago, but Russian pig farmers appear to have hit a…
Pig meat prices have remained on something of a plateau, with very little movement over the past seven days. The SPP slipped by just 0.06p and…
Catherine (Cat) McLaughlin, the NFU’s chief animal health and welfare adviser, has been appointed as the new chair of the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture…
With increasing rumblings about the latest flu virus to hit the world, news of this coronavirus or, to state its official title, COVID-19, has taken the…
In a feature in the March issue of Pig World, AHDB offers advice and tips on the best ways to make rotations work for both landlords…
In the latest issue of Pig World, ALISTAIR DRIVER reports on how NFU president Minette Batters piled the pressure on new Defra Secretary George Eustice as debate over import…