From today farmers, foresters and growers from across England can apply for grants from the Department of Environment Food & Rural Affairs’ (Defra) £27 million Farming…
Month: November 2021
A new programme highlighting over 750 potential vacancies in the butchery sector has been launched by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) in partnership with Skills Development Scotland.…
African swine fever has been detected in domestic pigs in a brand new area in the north east of Germany. The virus has been found in…
The NPA has called on George Eustice to support its calls for processors to accept ‘distressed kills’ of pigs on a liveweight basis to avert a catastrophic…
Conditions on farm are deteriorating and pig weights are just getting bigger, with no sign of the backlog easing, according to Thames Valley Cambac. In its…
Pilgrim’s UK, the world’s largest producer of higher welfare pork, has acquired quality lamb supplier, Randall Parker Foods (RPF). RPF’s two manufacturing facilities – an abattoir in…
Morrisons will be paying tribute to farmers in its Christmas advert this year set around the character ‘Farmer Christmas’ and two young friends discovering ‘the other hero of…
New figures from AHDB show pig producers lost, on average, 15p/kg, or £13/pig, during the third quarter of this year, as record costs of production continued…
The pig price slump continues and despite the efforts of the NPA and many individual producers, although there have been a number of promises of help…
Processors slaughtered 28,000 fewer pigs in October than in the same month a year ago, according to new Defra figures, which highlight the lack of progress…