Pig/Poultry
Waitrose announces £16m support scheme for pig farmers
Supermarket chain Waitrose has announced a support scheme worth up to £16 million for its British pig farmers. It will...
Pig/Poultry
Supermarket chain Waitrose has announced a support scheme worth up to £16 million for its British pig farmers. It will...
Pig/Poultry
Lincolnshire Trading Standards has removed 225 pigs from a farm it deemed to be a high-risk premises. An investigation, warranted...
Pig/Poultry
The National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland has said that in order to preserve the pig industry, the standard pig price...
Pig/Poultry
The Large White Pig, commonly known as the Yorkshire Pig, has been added to the highest priority category of the...
N.Ireland
Embattled pig farmers are facing a crisis in the sector as rising costs and supply chain disruptions are causing huge...
Pig/Poultry
Leading Scottish pig farmer Jamie Wyllie welcomed Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Mairi Gougeon on his farm yesterday as...
Agri-Business
The British Pig & Poultry Fair, partnered by ABN, is returning to Stoneleigh on May 10-11, offering a long-awaited opportunity...
N.Ireland
A new support scheme worth £2 million for local pig farmers in Northern Ireland has been announced today (Friday, March...
Other
David Bennett, the first person to have had pig heart transplant surgery died yesterday afternoon (March 8), the University of...
N.Ireland
Large numbers of farmers in Northern Ireland are claiming that the pig industry is in deep crisis - one which...
Agri-Business
A welfare training platform for the pigs sector has been launched by the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) today,...
Pig/Poultry
N2 Applied, the European agricultural technology business, has announced a partnership with the UK’s National Pig Centre that will see...
Pig/Poultry
Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Victoria Prentis has today (Thursday, February 10)...
Pig/Poultry
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots is reminding pig owners about the risk of African Swine Fever (ASF) following a...
Pig/Poultry
The extended Pig Hardship Scheme for Scottish farmers impacted by the temporary closure of Brechin abattoir last year due to...
N.Ireland
East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has expressed her “profound concern” that current labour shortages and other economic forces are making...
Rural Life
A genetically-modified pig heart has been successfully used for the first time in a human transplant surgery in the United...
N.Ireland
The Northern Ireland pig population, at 716,800 head, is the largest on records covering the last decade, according to the...