News

It’s here again. British Pig and Poultry Fair week is upon us and we’re looking forward to a great couple of days at Stoneleigh.

Red Tractor has spelled out why it should continue to play a central role in promoting British agriculture after we leave the EU. 

The recent period of proper summer weather has come as a welcome relief and has also helped to stimulate barbecue demand after a long wet winter and spring. 

The NPA has joined other industry organisations in expressing concern over the planned sale of AHDB’s carcase grading services to a private sector company.

A Suffolk producer has contacted the NPA with news of a night time incursion. 

A Parliamentary committee has reaffirmed the NPA’s calls for the Government to ensure its post-Brexit trade arrangements do not undermine UK food producerrs.

NPA members are reminded that they have less than two weeks to make their views known on another very important Defra consultation. 

UK-based continental meats supplier Winterbotham Darby has become the first company to gain accreditation for pig welfare across its European supply chain.

The NPA's 53-page submisission to Defra's ‘Health & Harmony’ Command Paper was one of more than 44,000 responses to the consultation.

BBC Radio Gloucestershire ran an excellent feature on African swine fever and the risk the Forest of Dean wild boar population poses to the UK's pig population.