China’s agriculture ministry has issued to divide the country into five regions to be charged with greater responsibility to prevent and control African swine fever, as…
Year: 2021
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its latest quarterly outlook for global red meat production and trade and including the forecast that pork production is expected to…
MPs have called on the Government to close the loophole that allows public bodies to source food imports produced to lower welfare standards than permitted in…
EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski has promised ‘to work intensively’ to implement the goals of the EU ‘End the Cage Age’ campaign, following a debate in…
The National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) has launched this year’s #VaccinesWork campaign on World Animal Vaccination Day. The campaign highlights the importance of innovation to produce new vaccines…
The second of two virtual NPA Spring Regional meetings takes place tonight, April 20, at 7pm, with a range of important industry topics to be discussed. Items…
Demand stayed firm last week, despite one major processor reducing capacity to three days at one of it’s plants for the foreseeable future due to the…
Some key UK retailers reduced the proportion of British pork on their shelves in March, despite industry calls to support the pig sector, the latest AHDB Porkwatch…
Mixed messages from the marketplace with finished pig values rising and the SPP up by 0.77p to 142.51p, but cull sows 6p/kg down. Weekly contribution prices…
UK pig meat production was ‘exceptionally strong’ in March, AHDB’s Bethan Wilkins has commented, as output reaching 97,900 tonnes during the month according to the latest figures…