The DAERA has announced that the new £2 million support package available for Northern Ireland’s pig farmers will soon open for applications, writes Meghan Taylor. Speaking…
Month: May 2022
NPA chairman Rob Mutimer has called for further increases in pig prices to at least stem the huge losses from pig farms and ensure the future…
Defra’s April 2022 figures show that 922,000 clean pigs were slaughtered in the UK, slightly down on a year ago, writes Meghan Taylor. Though April’s figure…
On Monday May 10, pig farmers and members of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) began protesting for pig price increases, at four processors based in and across Ireland, writes Meghan…
Cranswick Foods has confirmed the presence of Salmonella in a number of its cooked chicken products that are prepared in its poultry factory, in Hull. A routine internal inspection…
A new monitoring system in pig sheds that collects a range data to provide an outcome-based measure of animal welfare via an app for the producer…
Peter Woodhall and his son-in law Nigel Lloyd, of Warwick Farm, near Shrewsbury, are having to close their pig farm as ‘feed prices have gone through the roof’,…
Over the past 12 months, leading pork processor Pilgrim’s UK, has helped to provide 650,000 meal equivalents to families across the UK, writes Meghan Taylor. To…
Karro Food Group chief executive Steve Ellis urged the entire pig supply chain to increase the price paid to producers to beyond the £2/kg mark, as…
A 15 eurocents fall in the German pig price has been used by some processors as a precursor to standing on with some weekly input prices, according to…