Animal behaviourists from Scotland’s Rural College in Edinburgh have teamed up with machine vision experts at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) to…
Year: 2019
On Saturday, Wiltshire pig farmer and popular Pig World columnist Cameron Naughton will be leaping from an aeroplane from 15,000 feet in aid of charity. Cameron…
Better news from the other side of the Channel and beyond has helped to buoy up the pig trade significantly with the influential German producer price…
Elanco Animal Health Incorporated recently announced that it is now a fully independent company, becoming the second largest exclusively dedicated animal health company in the world.…
Four new cases of Swine Dysentery have been confirmed on pig farms in North Yorkshire and Gloucestershire, continuing a worry trend of recent weeks. The cases, three in…
Following last night’s announcement by European Union leaders who have offered to delay Brexit, the NFU said delaying Article 50 merely delays, rather than eliminates, the…
Figures from Defra have revealed that UK pig numbers on December 1, 2018 totalled 4.6 million head. This was more than 1% lower compared with the…
New data from Defra has revealed that UK clean pig slaughter in February was 834,200 head, 4% lower than the same month in 2018. This was…
The UK pork trade in the first three months of 2019 saw both exports and imports increasing year-on-year. All categories of pig meat recorded increases in export…
EU pig meat production for December was down 5% compared to December 2017, according to the latest figures from Eurostat. The data revealed that, cumulatively, overall…