It has been a long while since I’ve written anything for Pig World, so what has changed? Well, everything, actually. For the past four years, being…
Month: April 2025
In less than a month, I will have completed my first year as chairman of AHDB’s Pork Sector Council and member of AHDB’s board. It has…
Nine cases of foot-and-mouth disease have now been confirmed in Hungary and Slovakia, as the Hungarian government steps up its efforts to contain the disease. Hungary’s…
Our exciting programme for the two-day Pigs Tomorrow conference is almost complete, with Fabio Brancher, Pilgrim’s Europe’s agriculture director, and United Pig Cooperative’s joint general manager,…
The April 2025 issue is now available online. Packed full of news, features and comments.
Cranswick said it was considering its options after King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council Planning Committee unanimously rejected its application for a large pig and…
As the fate of Cranswick’s application for a large pig and poultry unit in Norfolk is decided today, the company has pointed out that the vast…
The UK pork sector will be directly affected by Donald Trump’s tariffs – but the bigger impact maybe the knock-on effect of the US’s wider global…
Cranswick has mounted a robust defence of its proposal for a large pig and poultry unit in Norfolk, after planning officers recommended that it should be…
The government is facing further calls to take decisive action to improve our national biosecurity to prevent devastating disease outbreaks reaching our livestock. After a coalition…