 The 2024 Pig & Poultry Fair, which will take place at the NEC in Birmingham for the first time next May, is now open for new…
Month: September 2023
Merchants’ ex-farm buying-in straw prices (£/t) supplied by the British Hay & Straw Merchants Association. Trade comment: Barley straw prices are rising. Many spring barley crops are…
Government intervention in the pork market via bulk purchasing has resulted in a significant rise in pork prices in China. Chinese pork prices had been low…
Yorkshire pig producer Rob Beckett has written to Farming Minister Mark Spencer, urging the UK Government to speed up plans to allow the commercial use of…
APHA is carrying out a study to determine the persistence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on pig and cattle farms using low quantities of antimicrobials – and…
Kate Mellor has been appointed to the role of key account manager for pig genetics company PIC UK. She will be joining the business on October…
Larger litter sizes are making supplementary feeding an increasingly important aspect of the pig management process. As HELEN BROTHWELL discovered, new research at Harper Adams University…
The northern Italian region of Lombardy has seen almost 34,000 pigs culled in an effort to control an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF). The country first…
Rabobank’s latest report on global pork trade has shown that competition between exporters has escalated and is likely to continue to do so. This is likely…
There is still time to vote for the Allied Industry Member of the Year Award. The NPA has announced a shortlist of five companies for the award, each…