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Delays, delays and can kicking. Think of Bill Murray standing, holding a microphone on day 50 of Groundhog Day.

Pork from Britain will be showcased at China’s most important meat trade exhibition next month, as the industry looks to build on record levels of exports in 2018.

The NPA can confirm that grant funding has been made available to pig producers for slurry stores and lagoons. Following a series of conversations with Defra, we are now aware that funding has been made available under the Countryside Stewardship Programme (CSS) capital grant options – with the intention of meeting water quality measures. Here we explain a little bit about the grants and if you may be eligible to apply for them.

The Livestock Information Programme (LIP) has published a new five-minute YouTube video explaining more about the programme. 

Frustrated producers had the opportunity to quiz AHDB last night at the NPA meeting in Diss about what may have caused last week’s drop in SPP.

Jimmy and Ali Butler, who manage Blythburgh Free Range Pork in Suffolk, have just appeared in an episode of BBC’s Fake Britain which featured a case of food fraud where two Nottinghamshire men were convicted of selling EU pork as local free range produce to an unsuspecting public.

The UK’s listed status application has been agreed by European Union (EU) Member States after it met the animal health and biosecurity assurances required for a third country to export live animals and animal products.

We are continuing to look at new product development in the latest phase of the Pork Report - keep sending in your findings. 

NFU Mutual, responding to our customer’s needs.

As the threat of African Swine Fever (ASF) to the UK pig production industry heightens, following the continued spread of the disease globally and most recently into Western Europe. Our NFUM agency network have started to express that demand exists in the UK for an ASF insurance solution. National Intermediary Services (part of the NFU Mutual) role is to seek to administer insurance solutions which fit outside of the NFU Mutual core risk appetite with the Insurance market and/or arrange bespoke insurance solutions.

Former NPA chairman Richard Longthorp sets out his vision for making farming a more attractive career proposition for young people.