NFU president Minette Batters has again used a high-profile platform to urge the Government to act to ease the dire situation in the pig sector. “It…
Month: October 2021
On its front page today, the Daily Mirror highlights the ‘Senseless slaughter of 100,000 pigs while families struggle to put food on table’. Pig farmers have…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of not taking the dire situation in the pig industry seriously, as culling, on a small scale, gets underway…
The RSPCA has urged the Government to take immediate action to solve the farming crisis and stop emergency culling of healthy pigs, calling the cull bigger…
The National Sheep Association (NSA) has criticised the comments made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday’s Andrew Marr show when questioned on the problems being faced by…
The marketplace continues to be satisfied by high volumes of cheap imports as ongoing labour shortages in pork plants continue to force pigs to back on…
People from across the pig industry have gathered today at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester to urge the Government to support the British pig sector…
In an astonishingly arrogant and ignorant interview, Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed the crisis-torn pig sector’s plight, telling Andrew Marr the pigs are going to die…
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is calling on the government to step in and support the agricultural sector to ease the current labour supply…
The NPA has written an open letter to retailers calling on them to back British pork over EU product to support producers in the midst of…