Rising concern over existing and potential labour shortages affecting Scotland’s meat processors has been highlighted by Alan McNaughton, newly elected president of the Scottish Association of…
Year: 2021
Processors need to undergo a significant shift in attitude towards pig price, in the face of healthy retail demand, in order to avert an exodus of producers…
Unfortunately the gap between feed costs and pig values is still far too wide and on a traffic light basis, producers need to see green for…
All of meatpacker JBS SA’s global facilities are fully operational after a weekend cyberattack disrupted much of its North American and Australian operations, according to a…
During Q1 2021, Canada exported 358,000 tonnes of pig meat (inc offal) globally, an increase of 2% on Q1 2020, according to Statistics Canada. This increase…
Pig prices continued to increase in week ended 29 May, with the EU-spec SPP up 1.05p to 152.79p/kg, AHDB’s Bethan Wilkins reported. This is the eleventh…
The latest average pig price, for the week ending 23 May, was €160.85/100kg. This was the highest level recorded since June last year, AHDB’s Bethan Wilkins…
Moscow-based multimedia freelance journalist, Vladislav Vorotnikov tells Pig World Magazine how Russia is set to become one of the world’s largest pork exporters, despite a record-breaking ASF…
EU animal breeding companies have welcomed a report published by the European Commission that they hope could pave the way for genome editing to be used…
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