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Wiltshire pig farmer and popular Pig World columnist Cameron Naughton will be doing a sponsored skydive on Saturday. 

The hot summer of 2018 appears to have taken its toll on UK pig herd performance, according to the latest physical performance data from Agrosoft.

There are more tentative signs of a recovery in the pig market as the SPP recorded a second consecutive small increase last week.

The NPA is backing the UK farming unions in calling on the Government to revise its recent announcement on the UK’s no deal import tariff regime.

The Government has launched a new ‘no deal’ notification system for businesses that import live animals from outside the EU.

As the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a deal refuses to go away, the NPA has published a detailed document on UK pork tariffs in this scenario. 

Members are urged to take a look at the latest post in the Members' Area which includes information to help producers improve farm security. 

The start of 2019 has seen a welcome surge in UK pig meat exports, fuelled by more than £16 million in shipments to non-EU destinations in January alone.

Import tariffs would remain on most pork products in the event of a Brexit no deal. But they would be set at significantly lower levels.

NPA senior policy advisor Ed Barker gives his views on what, even by recent standards, was a fairly extraordinary week in Westminster.