Once again it is difficult to find anything positive to say about the UK pig industry or to a significant extent further afield with global prices…
Month: July 2021
Converting to free farrowing systems could cost the UK pig sector more than £200 million, according to a leading buildings and equipment supplier. ARM Buildings has…
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced that a further £1.6 million COVID-19 support scheme for pig producers is being rolled out. The second tranche…
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Falling Chinese pig prices on the back of a surge of African swine cases is hitting Chinese import volumes and have an impact on the global…
The NPA has welcomed a new £19.2 million cross-Government surveillance programme to improve the detection and tracking of foodborne and antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens through the agri-food…
NPA chairman Rob Mutimer issued an angry response after Farming Minister Victoria Prentis rejected the NPA’s request for a COVID compensation scheme for the English pig sector. The Department claimed it…
A recent National Craft Butchers (NCB) survey has found that 59% of abattoirs expect to close the business within the next 5 years. NCB, a founding members…
The electronic Medicines Book (eMB) has a new benchmarking feature that will indicate whether producers fall into the top 5% or 10% of antibiotic users for your…
UK clean pig slaughter rose by 18% on the previous year to 986,200 head, according to the latest Defra statistics release. It is worth noting that…