The pig backlog grows ever larger, as last week saw no sign of the staffing shortages hitting processors easing, with most affected to some degree, according to…
Month: August 2021
Applications are open for a scheme in Scotland that will provide up to £715,000 of financial support to pig producers affected by the temporary closure of…
Thousands of perfectly healthy pigs will end up being destroyed and wasted unless the Government takes urgent action to alleviate crippling staff shortages, NPA chief executive…
It remains difficult to come up with any positive points as far as the UK pig industry is concerned with prices still in retreat and spare…
In a new cross-industry report, the UK food and drink sector has called for a 12-month Covid-19 Recovery Visa to help alleviate the workforce shortages that…
The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) is calling on the Home Office and UK Visas & Immigration to make meat processors eligible for a Skilled…
AHDB’s Pig Health Scheme will return this autumn with an enhanced benchmarking feature, following a coronavirus-enforced hiatus. Under the free-to-join scheme, assessors monitor English pigs at…
The use of processed animal protein (PAP) in pig and poultry feed in the EU has been formally approved in an amendment to the EU feed ban…
Karro Food Limited has welcomed Matthew Archer to its on-site team after he won Humberside Engineering Training Association’s (HETA) apprentice of the year award. Mr Archer started at…
Increased demand has helped boost exports of UK pork to non-EU countries – with 122,850 tonnes shipped in the first six months of the year, according…