UK production of pigmeat in January was 7% down on January 2022 due to a combination of lower slaughter numbers and lower carcase weights. The latest…
Month: February 2023
Defra has published more details about new grants that will soon available for farmers to support investment in some key areas, including slurry management and animal…
Access to the Pig Health Scheme (PHS) will cease in May, AHDB has announced. The levy body announced in November that it will no longer be…
The UK pig sector has a massive financial black hole to fill and is still in the very early stages of recovery, NPA chief executive Lizzie…
The SPP continues to power ahead albeit at a slightly slower rate than previously and has put on another 0.73p to stand at 207.13p. EU prices…
England’s female pig breeding herd suffered a massive decline in 2022, as the industry endured massive financial losses on the back of soaring input costs and…
Forming part of Pilgrim’s UK’s commitment to sustainability and maximising the operational capacity of the company, the pork producer has announced its Bodmin site has benefitted…
Pig farmers continued to lose, on average, £17/head in the fourth quarter of last year, the ninth successive quarter of negative margins. The estimated full economic…
Imports of pigmeat to the UK increased by 9% to just over 800,000 tonnes in 2022, while UK export volumes were up 7% to 373,000t. While…
Opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised the NFU Conference that a Labour Government would not allow a repeat of the ‘shocking’ events that left the…