Pig

Pressure remains on pig prices, but there is some hope that tightening European supply could support the British market

With many challenges hanging over the pig sector in the UK, Alex Black spoke to Sofina Foods' Graham Wilkinson about its new programme to collaborate with farmers

In the Animal Welfare Strategy published at the end of last year, Defra committed to ‘banning the use of CO2 gas stunning of pigs, subject to a consultation’

AHDB estimated the margins per pig dropped in the final quarter of the year despite a fall in the cost of production

The new Animal Welfare Strategy for England was debated in parliament on Wednesday (January 22)

Defra and the Welsh Government have confirmed their intention to permit the feeding pig and poultry processed animal protein (PAP) for the first time since it was banned in the 1990s as a BSE control

The variant detected in wild boars does not match the strain used by researchers at the lab

Officials say strain of African swine fever suggests it may have come from a laboratory

The BBC has removed a clip from a Radio 4 podcast which included the claim that ‘100,000 pigs is not a big pig farm anymore’

The UK Government has been urged to ensure import controls are robust, after Spain confirmed its first case of African swine fever (ASF) since 1994