Red Tractor will consult next year on proposals to improve its farm standards, with a view to streamlining assessments, reducing the audit burden and ensuring standards…
Month: December 2025
Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture is investigating whether the source of its African swine fever (ASF) outbreak near Barcelona may have been a laboratory located close to…
AHDB has confirmed it will not be developing a new price series to replace the All-Pig Price (APP), for now at least. The APP showed the…
Stepping into the role of pork sector director at the end of September has felt like a natural next step in my career, allowing me to…
Tackling porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and swine influenza (SIV), two of the pig sector’s most damaging diseases, has long been a headache for the…
The European Parliament and Council of Ministers have reached an agreement to simplify EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and delay its introduction for a year.  The EUDR,…
Red Tractor Pigs Board chair Stewart Houston spoke to Alistair Driver about a number of key initiatives agreed by the Red Tractor Pigs Board at its…
Dr Craig Lewis has been appointed as PIC’s commercial director for the UK, Ireland, Poland, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. Craig, who has held the role…
UK pig meat exports decreased by 9% in the third quarter of this year, compared with Q2, although, over the course of the year, 2025 exports…
Cumbrian MP Markus Campbell-Savours has been suspended by the Labour Party after voting against the government’s plans to reform inheritance tax for farmers from April 2026. …