The challenge of keeping Scotland’s meat factories running against a backdrop of severe staff shortages is affecting businesses right across the country, with every indication that…
Month: September 2021
Cameron Naughton, a farmer from Wiltshire, has won the ‘excellence in the education of farm animal welfare’ category, in RSPCA Assured’s first-ever awards for pig and…
NFU president Minette Batters has told the BBC’s Newsnight programme 150,000 pigs could be culled unless the Government issues visa to allow more butchers into the…
Defra Secretary George Eustice has announced new plans to ‘unlock the power of gene editing’, albeit with the focus initially on crops, rather than livestock. Defra’s…
The total number of pigs in the United States, recorded on 1 September, was 75.4 million head, according to the USDA – a reduction of 4% compared to the…
NPA chief executive Zoe Davies has urged the Home Office have a rapid of its decision not to allow temporary visa for butchers over the next…
Exports of EU pig meat have been falling in recent months, pushing the market further into oversupply, and putting further pressure on prices, AHDB’s red meat analyst…
There is no respite from the volumes of pigs being left behind by a number of processors still bereft of staff and unable to process the normal…
The NPA has criticised the Government for ignoring the pig sector in its weekend announcement on temporary work visas and has urged it to extend the…
The Government has announced that it will make more 10,000 temporary visas available for HGV drivers and poultry workers, but has so far rejected calls for…